March 27, 2008
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Is it weird to feel lonely when you have people around? I feel like I don't have any friends to talk to who will actually listen without assuming they know what I am going to say.... Ron and I have some friends that are friends to both of us, but I feel like I have to make an appointment to get a word in, and if I pause to take a breath, everyone changes the subject and I never get to finish the subject that I was speaking about. It is weird.....And Ron is so sick of listening to people by the time he comes home from work, he doesnt want to listen either.... I see why people pay therapists now...just to have someone to listen to them..... Anyway.... guess I am just feeling sorry for myself...
blech.
peace....
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i can totally relate....even down to the being around people and them changing the topic, etc. yep. it isn't weird...or if it is, then we are weird together!!
email me, hon...i'll "listen" (if you can call it listening in an email) you know what i mean...
awwwww!
i feel all feminine now...
i used to go through that too, but then a couple of my friend and i got into a fist fight and now we're best friends and i can now talk to him whenever about whatever. i show him the same courtesy too.
but personally, i'm the type who probably changes the subject of a conversation asap because i'm totally uncomfortable with it.
We women need friendships with other women for this very reason--we have a whole lot more to say than our husbands would EVER want to hear. I frequently hear, "Give me the three-minute version," and right when I'm warming up to my topic, "Time's up."
"Succinctness" is nowhere in my makeup.
So, I call my sisters and my mil and my mom and my daughter and my friends and use up more than my daily allotment of words that way. The nice thing about such phone calls is that we ramble all over various topics but then can return to a former one at any time with no irritation or offense from either of us. Conversation never needs to have a "point" other than my interest in it.
Or I write silly things on my blog and leave long comments on my friend's sites. . .
Yeah so anyway, We have had the most amazing week and.... I'm sorry were you saying something?
Being in ministry for the past 5 years, it's the loneliest place I've been in my whole life. Surrounded by people and yet no one to talk to about all the "stuff" that goes along with it. I've never been so lonely.
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