I don't mind being alone. I am an introvert, so that helps. There are things I enjoy doing alone, like reading and sewing. Still there are some things that I enjoy more when I am doing it with someone else. Taking a walk or having a meal. I live with my 80 year old mother, who is still sharp as a whip. I usually wake up before her in the morning, and if she doesn't wake up soon after i do, i start getting lonely and willing her to wake up and keep me company. I am scared about what I will do when she dies (which hopefully, won't be soon)!
I am a functioning agoraphobia on meds. I use to never go out off my house. When I started feeling better I would go out with a safe person. After I left my husband I found myself lonely and not doing much. After the first year I got use to being alone. I went 10 years living alone with my dogs and cats. Recently I got back together with an ex bf from 30 yrs ago. He spent 4 months with me helping me recover from surgery. One day I got up and he was there and said he had to run some errands and never came back. Emotional abuse. He did text me for a month said he wanted to come back and didn't instead in a month he left town without seeing me. I felt loneliness again. Since he has been gone he has been trying to get back with me. I don't know if he deserves another chance, but I know I hate the feeling of loneliness.
@PTSD I am so sorry. Only you can decide if he deserves a second chance. But if you hate the feeling of loneliness, it might be worthwhile. It’s a second chance he is asking for, not a third or fourth or fifth. What was he like when he was with you? It seemed he cared enough to help you recover from surgery? Was he kind to you? That is the most important question to ask? It’s not only his second chance, but your second chance. I wish you well whatever you choose to do. annie
It's his third chance. He has always been good to me. I just feel like he is the type man who can never be faithful and I am jealous, he is now 63 never married with two adult children and I'm 60 with one adult child. None of them live by us. I dated a guy 8 yrs that I didn't live with because I knew he couldn't be faithful. He moved in with a lady but we kept in touch just no more sex on my part. She use to call me all the time. I wasnt seeing him, just talk and text. She finally left him. We still keep in touch and I've moved across the US.