Do you feel you have no one?

If you needed to really talk, or had an issue, or needed help irl etc too?

I might need to live alone soon, and my sister who used to always be in my corner, is very ill. She can't help me physically and I feel a burden bringing anything to her because she is in severe awful daily pain. So I have not one person who can ever support me fully. My therapist says I need some support system, to join a group. But people seem so enmeshed in their own lives.
I wish life wasn't so arduous so much of the time.
Do you ever feel that? It feels terrifying facing life alone.

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JoyfulSilence · 51-55, M

I am mostly alone.

If I could not walk or drive life would suck. Although I suppose I could have everything delivered and use Ubers. I suspect they would let me work from home again, too, like during the pandemic, due to my disability. Yet I'd have to move to a place with no stairs!

Paying for a 30 mile ride does not seem economical, unless insurance or government funds would cover it. Of course I could perhaps just retire early. Maybe move into assisted living? Use up all my money then go on Medicaid?

I have gotten more confident as I have aged, in day to day stuff, and in general have learned to trust others, especially if I paid them.

But somebody just gave me the wrong size coffee just now. Yet they did not overcharge me. Yet I could have sworn I had asked for a larger size! But maybe that would have kept me up all night, LOL!

Good luck on your future!