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[quote=Anonymous]My DH and kids stayed at my MILs through New Year's, I had to come home earlier. This is the first weeklong period I've had away from them, at home in several years. It made me think about what it's like living alone, as a woman. I had two grandmothers who spent most of their lives as widows--one lived for 60 years after her husband died, the other for 35. My MIL has also been widowed for almost 20 years. My DH is several years older than me and it just sort of suddenly occurred to me that I could and probably will be alone again, for a significant stretch of my life. I'm not really sure how to prepare for this. I of course hope that doesn't happen and want to live in the here and now, but I realized I rarely socialize and, if my boys, who will be leaving for college in a few years, don't stay in the area after they go to school and grow up, and if my husband isn't around, this could become a really lonely existence really quickly.

Have any of you thought of this and what you might do to structure your life so you can still live fully even if you find yourself on your own again in your old age? It's pretty scary. I now really respect my relatives who are living this way and my grandmothers, who both passed. It takes guts to keep chipper and busy on your own, I think I'd become a weird hermit who talked to herself. [/quote]

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