Hi, my beloved Peter died two years and four months ago. I had to sell up and move. I am only just beginning to get straight in my new abode. Every site I look at says don’t be afraid to lean on your support systems. Well, I don’t have any. My family are too involved in their own lives. My best friend died too. I have a couple of new friends, but I don’t want to presume. I’ve even had to change doctor because of the move. So everything that helped me cope has gone. And at 79 it’s hard to rebuild even if I had the energy, which I don’t. The loneliness on top of the grief makes me wish I had gone too. Not complaining. Just saying.
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Hi @Rocking
Thank you so much for sharing this with the community 
I’m sure someone will be along to offer their support, but I just wanted to let you know that you have been heard and you are not alone.
Take good care,
Naoise
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Hi Rocking,
I’m sorry you had to move away from support. Is there any bereavement coffee mornings in your area ? I know they are not for everyone, but sometimes it’s nice to be in a group, where people understand.
Thanks for the suggestion. You are right, and I do go to such a group. And it does help. But then I go home.
What do you do when you feel like you can’t go on anymore and have no one to talk to
I try to self soothe with music, breathing exercises, camomile tea. Sometimes I write to my late husband. Walking by the sea marshes if I can bear to go out. I’ve tried meditation apps but sooner or later they pall and then I find them irritating rather than helpful.
Lost my husband nearly 14 months now every day feels lonely and empty no one to talk to anymore no friends family been good but everyone has their own lives to live how does folk cope with this as I just don’t know anymore
I totally understand and sympathise with you. Most days I’m just dragging or coaxing myself along. I wish I had some clever advice. I don’t know if it helps you to know that I get you one hundred percent sending you hugs.
Thanks it’s good to know that there are other people there going through the same thinks it’s so hard just to face each day with exactly the same things rolling about in your head all the time take care
I know. Take care yourself.
Good morning all 26 weeks ago yesterday my whole life changed my beautiful wife and I went away for our wedding anniversary on the 10th may we went back to to the place we got married which was gretna green we loved it there we arrived there on the 10th of may it was a beautiful day sun was out we had such a beautiful day later on that evening my wife said to me that something was not right she passed away with a pulmonary embolism so suddenly I am so alone I don’t have any family or friends I am in our forever home that we had just bought 3 years ago I am so heartbroken lonely shattered I am having a really bad morning today I am sitting having a cup of tea looking about the house that was once a happy full of laughter and love is now sad I have never felt so alone lost frightened scared in all my life I just don’t know how to cope with this sad lonely world I now have
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Hello, I feel your pain, all I can say That when we love deeply we grieve deeply.
You are in the very early stages & will be in shock, over time the shock will ease off, you’ll always love & miss your wife but in time the memories of your life together will comfort you.
until then just know how your feeling is normal & all you can do is eat & sleep & carry on best you can knowing that you will not always feel so wretched as you do now.
Thank you everything I look at or go ot is full off memories I cry all the time even though they are good memories I really really miss her so so much and wish I could just be with her
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So very sorry for your loss. Lots of sympathy and hugs. 
Yes everything you’re feeling is awful grief…..but one day those memories will make you smile & feel warm.
You just need to hold on & get through this period, time passing somehow enables your brain & body & emotions to come together & heal.
Until then just do little things that bring comfort, favourite foods, watch different types of TV programmes then you’d normally watch, go for short walks, anything really.
Little by little over time you won’t feel this bad & you will smile when you think of your wife always with a tinge of sadness but you will get there.
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Thank you just everything is so so difficult we had moved to an new area and it is only 3 years in june there I went out a walk for the first time with my wife a month before she passed at the the beginning just after she had passed I went out a walk round the block but it dont seem right I was crying walking round thinking about when we were last out and to be honest I feel.so alone where I am I am a total stranger in a new area I only feel.safe in our house which we loved I have never felt so alone frightened scared all the time I really hate this so called life I just don’t know what to do anymore
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Thank you I just so alone a d frightened
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Try to say to yourself everything your feeling is normal, I had the same feelings, if I found doing something too much I didn’t do it again, an example is our local supermarket, I went to do sone shopping but all I could see was my husbands favourite foods, I just left my trolley in the aisle & left & shopped in a new supermarket, after time passed I went back to the old one & coped.
If you feel best at home then stay in as much as you can, be kind to yourself for the moment.
There will come a time when you will feel a bit stronger & will venture out more, I’d suggest going to places that you didn’t go with your wife for a while, a different cafe? Have a look at the library? Look at the local noticeboard for any groups that might be of interest? You will build a life again but only when your stronger, that time isn’t now just tell yourself that everything your feeling is because you loved your wife but you will get stronger & that is what your wife would be cheering you on to do.
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Thank you so much everything and everywhere I go is constantly memories I have had so meny meltdowns going into the shops where we would shop I can see us shopping together eating places to I have to drive past them every day and it really really hurts me I cry all the time now christmas adverts and adverts of your favourite place where we have been so meny times is showing on the tv I honestly do t know or what to do everything is 100 times harder
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