I live alone, am 68 and literally feel like I'm dying inside from loneliness. My kids and grandkids come to visit, I have wonderful friends in my neighbors, but I know that every day begins and ends alone. People can't be here every day, they have their lives to live. No matter what I do, who I see, where I go etc, living alone is very, very painful for me. I NEVER EVER eat at my table, I can't stand seeing the empty chairs around me everyday. I walk around in my house wishing there was someone there to talk to, laugh with, cry with, to snuggle up to, to be hugged by, just do every day things with. I've lived alone for 5 1/2 years now and I'm falling apart inside. If it weren't for my little dog, I think I'd go insane. I pray every day for God to bring a wonderful man to me to share my life with. After 22 years of marriage, raising 5 children and then having to divorce him because he couldn't fight his drug addiction that he got into in the last 6 years of our marriage, and then he committed suicide after our divorce, l am lost and broken by loneliness. God help me please, it's getting to where facing another day alone is a living nightmare and unbearable.
Beloved Sister, it's well with you, in Jesus name. Amen!
I understand clearly what you are going through. It's not easy at all, because even with my husband, and one out of our five children, who is staying with us, with his wife, I still feel lonely sometimes.
I think that this issue of loneliness is in grades.
Once one does not have one's passion, loneliness comes even with a full house.
Another thing is lack of a job, or something that keeps one busy for some hours of the day.
Please, go out for window shopping in malls, go to church to worship, go to where you like going, listen to music just as I'm doing right now. Marriage is not the ultimate, but God is, love is.
I pray that God sends you help, sends you love, in Jesus name. Amen!
By the grace of God, I'm going to be 67 in December 3, and it's a time couples are deserted by children for their own living too. It's all blessings.
Please, for the meantime, look for something to keep you busy, while waiting for God to give you another husband.
Receive the peace and comfort of the Holy Spirit, in Jesus name. Amen!