Have been married for 25 years and with him for nearly 30 now. Prior to DH I was engaged to someone else, so haven't really had much time on my own.
I was talking to a friend of mine the other day - she's been divorced a couple of times and is currently on her own after a fairly long relationship ended. We were talking about how important it is for women to be independent and not depend on a man and she laughed at me and said (quite rightly) that I wouldn't know because I hadn't actually been single for more than a year or so since I was 16. I'm nearly 50 now. My first thought was that she was wrong, that I am totally independent: I earn my own money and have never been dependent on a man for money, I work away a lot and travel at least once a month all on my own.
But then I started to think about it and realised that she's right: I've never actually had to cope on my own. Even when I've been working away for up to 3 months I know that DH has always been on the end of a phone and could fly out to me if needed. Now feel spoilt and also starting to worry what I'm doing to do if (when) my much older DH dies and I really am left all alone....
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To sometimes think I wouldn't be able to cope alone
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zeezeek · 22/01/2016 10:50
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