For those of us quietly sad about leaving the EU.

[DioneTheDiabolist]

I'm not making a song and dance about it. I'm not falling out with anyone over it. I dont want to debate it. I'm just sad about it.

And that's ok.

Anyone else with me?

We are becoming, smaller, uglier and more insular, and for what? Such a pointless act of self harm.

This says it all for me. I'm feeling miserable.

Keeping my head down and watching the real show after all the "joy unconfined" stuff. Let them have their fun.
It brings Irish unification an unexpected step closer . I just hope it will be pain free.
Hope is always better than hopeless.

Sad here too!

So sorry for your husband's job ellesbelles💐

Another one here! Sad and angry.
Fed up that pointing out why I wanted us to remain in the EU leads me to be called a 'remoaner', and dreading all the gloating from those who 'won' today (already started in Facebook).

I am quietly sad. I voted to join in the 1970s, DH worked from the 1980s as an IT consultant providing services across Europe for a British company. He saw first-hand exactly how the opening up of Single Market worked for the UK. We retired to France and live happily in our French community.
I am gutted about the vote, about the lack of understanding shown particularly by my generation, and the fact that our grandchildren will not have the opportunities we had.
I am 70 and hope I live long enough to see us go back in.

I'm very sad about it. I remember breaking down in tears in my car the day it happened.

It's heartbreaking what it's done to this country.

I'm with you

I'm feeling sad today. Can't quite believe it's happening.

Likewise. I fear today will go down in the history as the beginning of the UK's major decline, and I really worry for how the most vulnerable sectors of society can possibly cope.

You know what, @OrangeLindt, some of us can think about two things at the same time. Amazing, isn't it?

I cried like a baby at the Brussels photo, just so sad.

My heart feels heavy,

I’m grieving. I’m so sad that my DD’s horizons will be narrower than mine were. I don’t have any right to another passport. If I were younger I’d emigrate, but I’m old (and in a job with country-specific qualifications) so I’m stuck.

Very sad. Take heart, this doesn't have to be the end though. They can't change geography, and they cant change the fact that many of us were born as EU citizens and that lots (maybe most) of us feel like we have lost more then we will gain.

I think the centre of gravity will help us fall towards the EU though it will be a bumpy stressful embarrassing divisive road but i do believe that my children will one day be EU citizens.

And celebrate British culture and traditions - there are so many great things about the islands, lets not forget it.

Yup, more quiet sadness here. Embarrassed and ashamed to be English right now. I’m old enough to know that emotional pain doesn’t stay at the same pitch forever - but I remember England before we joined the EU - life was quite spectacularly drab. And constrained.

Can only bear it by completely shutting down all interest and thought on the subject. Good idea to drink a toast in memory of all we’ve lost.

I am 70 and hope I live long enough to see us go back in.

I truly hope you do.

I'm currently in a situation where I've had to interact with a rabid, gloating Brexiteer on a daily basis.

My attitude is to say now 'well let's hope you're right and it actually does work out okay'. Then just keep repeating 'time will tell won't it' every time they spout nonsense. Eventually even they realise it might come back to bite them on the arse and shut up.

I’m a British citizen and have been in mainland Europe for thirty years.
Tonight at midnight CET I will be nursing a stiff drink on a one-woman vigil.
I’m calling it a Pity Party but really it’s the culmination of a nightmare.

I feel the need to mark my frustration and disillusionment, the thought that my compatriots have been so criminally misguided and, in spite of so many opportunities to reverse the decision, this has come to pass.

Farewell EU GB. It was nice knowing you.

I feel very sad, a real sense of loss. I know the Brexiteers are relishing their pyrrhic victory, but I hope they also know that they cannot stop the rest of us feeling a deep affinity with the rest of Europe.

OrangeLindt doubtless goes on the parenting boards and stamps their foot and says "Stop talking about parenting, there's people dying" then onto the Education threads "Stop talking about Education..'

I am very sad. Sad for my European friends who feel less welcome, sad at the financial instability which will inevitably follow. I also hope I live long enough to see us rejoin.
I am finding it hard to damp down my burning fury at those who voted for this and ashamed of the ingrained intolerance (and I’m no woke teenager but this is just basic human to human stuff) and racism in our country.

I’ve spent 3 years believing it couldn’t possibly happen, because a country can’t be that stupid, surely?

But here we are. I’m very sad for my dd’s future and the people that will suffer as a result of this.

Yes, sadness here too ☕️
I want to go to Italy and hug it

Ooh @SaskiaRembrandt - that is EXACTLY what it is, a Pyrrhic victory. Haven’t heard that term for years but it hits the nail on the head.