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How are you doing? - weekly thread #4 (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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FINALLY ON TIME THIS WEEK

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Excellent...

...is what is would say when I'm running my "Pretending to be Normal".exe

Everyday I skim the headlines and it looks worse and worse.

I might have to quit Lemmy again. Like.. at least a 6 month break. Maybe forever.

There's literally nothing positive on Lemmy. I just want to stop knowing about the world and pretend things aren't happening. If the gestapo comes, so be it. If I'm gonne die, I'm gonna enjoy some time without social media (yes, Lemmy is a social media) and enjoy the remaining moments we may have on this planet.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Eh, I'm still recovering from the holidays. My fiance passed three years ago, and during the holidays I still make it out to see her family. It's always a bit bittersweet since I love seeing them, but I feel her absence so much more being with them without her. This year was tougher than the other it seemed like because of her grandma telling me how the family has kind of drifted apart since my fiance's passing. The thing that broke my heart though, was talking with her sister and her telling me that sometimes she can't remember her very well, that she has a hard time remembering her face. It really shook me to hear that. I cried intensely the whole way home. It's heartbreaking to see the toll that her loss has taken on all of us. I'm in the process of trying to work through the grief, but it's the most difficult thing I've ever head to do. Just simply accepting the new normal has been a monumental undertaking for me. I'm trying to figure out a life without her, it's just hard to imagine what that looks like sometimes :'(

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

God, i'm really sorry to hear that. She sounded like an amazing person, from how much you all care about her. May she rest in peace, and i hope you will all heal from this :(

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Thank you. Yes, she really was. I fell in love with her the first day we met. We didn't get together until almost two years after, but I never questioned that we were meant to be together. I didn't talk about her passing to anyone for awhile after it happened. I felt like mentioning it was too close to fishing for sympathy, sometimes I still do. But at a certain point I had to say something, I can't help but feel the immensity of her loss hour after hour, day after day. I appreciate the kind words. I'm definitely in the process of healing, it's just a very long, and much of the time, lonely process.