GGG- What it means to me.

[MJontheMend]

Maybe now you could address the subject of why you feel homeless???

Because my cow is used to running a moderately large household consisting of 4 people and a dog in a big old house. Two of the people are gone and quite soon the house will be too. I'm stuck in the rural town I live in until my D16 graduates next year which means that I'll just be living in some sort of transitory rental with her until then. I intend to move into the Metro area for social and business reasons at that point but I don't like the idea of living by myself so I'm not exactly looking forward to it. I guess what I'm saying is that to me a home is a house or other long-term dwelling place in which I live with other people for whom my cow cares or with whom my cow co-operates in making things homey.

I guess part of what I'm saying is that becoming almost simultaneously divorced and empty-nested makes me feel partially unemployed or retired because although I almost always had some kind of outside or self-employment while I was married, I really did spend a lot of time/energy on being a "homemaker". Also, I guess it goes back to my FOO and the fact that I was the oldest of four girls and we all did homey things together all the time.