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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why are you all alone? why don't you have a support group in your life?[/quote]

OP here and I actually don't know why I don't have many friends left anymore.  It just seems like we all got so busy and just lost touch.  I am currently single and never had children so maybe that adds to it but I never felt so alone until this morning.  I enjoy spending time by myself and don't actually feel lonely - just alone in the world.  [/quote]

I have two grown children and am a widow (only 59 years old) and I am alone too.  Please don't think having children hedges that bet in any way - if you do the whole motherhood thing right, they go off and live their own successful, busy lives (in my case one on the other side of the country and the other in London).  And the same friend attrition happened to me as well.  So when my Mom died suddenly I felt the same as what you are going through now.

I'm still working on it but it takes effort when you are my age to make new friends and keep an active social life.  I come home from work and I want to collapse but I force myself to spruce up and go meet a friend for dinner or go to a class.

I am sorry for your loss, OP and slowing losing a parent or spouse to Alzheimer's and dementia is a death-loss.  But remember that you can change. [/quote]

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