I lost my husband of 44 years approximately 16 months ago. I am doing everything right…I’ve joined clubs, made new friends…..but I feel soooo empty and lost inside…..this is most definitely the worst time in my life. I don’t sleep well, eating is a nightmare…as nothing tastes of anything anymore and I ask myself what is the point of it all. I feel I am in a nightmare that I can’t wake up from.
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Dear Anne
I hear you, I think we all feel we are in a nightmare. I even shouted to let me wake up from the nightmare when I was in the garden the other day (where no one could hear me)
Your doing everything you can. All I think to myself is, one day at a time. I try to keep busy all day in the hope that I sleep, it doesn’t always work. Have you tried counselling? I haven’t yet but am considering it.
Would going to bed with the TV on or a podcast help you sleep, I can’t sleep without boring history for sleep on YouTube. I also have a long cushion made for necks that warms in the microwave. I wrap it round me like my husband’s arm.
I’ve seen people on here that just snack, maybe healthy nibbles would be better than facing a big meal or a good soup. I lived on quiche and yogurt for a while.
This is awful for us all, unbearable at times but we have no choice. One day at a time x
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