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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: DUmpDiver on January 17, 2025, 07:15:14 AM
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William769 (56,243 posts)
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 02:29 AM
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I've been having a bad case of Melancholy lately
Due to 01/20 fast approaching. I haven't felt like this since I lost my dear sweet life partner David & our son Phillip oh so many years ago. I just can't shake it. Someone told me that I'm overreacting and I hope they are right but I fear they are not.
I am at a loss on how to deal with this.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219911774
Two guys with a son???
William769 (56,243 posts)
15. Very kind words. Thank you.
Reply to KitFox (Reply #14)
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 03:30 AM
Phillip our son was the first loss (17 years old hit & run drunk driver), then the love love of my life David two years later (from complications of AIDS).
It does feel good to open up & say it out loud instead of bouncing around in my head.
Once again thank you for nudging me to open up.
Best advice ever:
Walleye (36,870 posts)
21. Yes. We should enjoy our guacamole now before the trade war with Mexico starts.
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Losing a loved one is terrible, and I can't begin to fathom losing a child, but you if are putting "losing" an election on the same level as those personal tragedies, your priorities are in desperate need of realignment. Either relationships need moved way up the ladder or politics need moved way down.
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Losing a loved one is terrible, and I can't begin to fathom losing a child, but you if are putting "losing" an election on the same level as those personal tragedies, your priorities are in desperate need of realignment. Either relationships need moved way up the ladder or politics need moved way down.
100%. I've lost loved ones and friends. Losing an election is a pimple in comparison.
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Losing a loved one is terrible, and I can't begin to fathom losing a child, but you if are putting "losing" an election on the same level as those personal tragedies, your priorities are in desperate need of realignment. Either relationships need moved way up the ladder or politics need moved way down.
:hi5:
I've been dismayed at some Presidential election outcomes, especially in 1996 and 2012. While I have not experienced the sudden loss of a loved one (my parents' deaths were not unexpected nor at young ages), I have lived through a child being on chemo, my wife having a brain tumor removed and ovarian cancer surgery, and an immediate family member being on prednisone (hopefully temporarily) for CLL. Election losses are nothing in comparison to any one of those.
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Well, William, if you didn't dump friends over an Amazon gift card, you might realize how precious relationships are, and maybe you wouldn't be so melancholy.
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Well, William, if you didn't dump friends over an Amazon gift card, you might realize how precious relationships are, and maybe you wouldn't be so melancholy.
:hi5: for remembering that! Here's the Cave thread about his Amazon gift card outburst of moronicity, https://conservativecave.com/cave/index.php?topic=135621.0 .
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William769 (56,243 posts)
15. Very kind words. Thank you.
Reply to KitFox (Reply #14)
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 03:30 AM
Phillip our son was the first loss (17 years old hit & run drunk driver), then the love love of my life David two years later (from complications of AIDS).
It does feel good to open up & say it out loud instead of bouncing around in my head.
Once again thank you for nudging me to open up.
I have to imagine you are not far behind then.
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I will send you a free single edged razor blade and implicit and simple instructions to end your melancholy.
I'm a giver.
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not far behind
QFT