My girlfriend of two years died just two weeks ago,
today I was told I had 3 days to get my stuff out of my house cos we were renting and it was all in her name. To messed up to deal with this. Just want to die.
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Oh i am so sorry to hear about your girlfriend. Is that really a rule in your place that calls to let you leave because the rented house is in her name?? what if you’d continue to pay it yourself, is it possible?
I don’t know. My head is so all over the place I just can’t deal with talking to the land lord to get things sorted, don’t think I could afford to live there alone any way. I got my rents to do most of the talking for me, so I’m greatful for that and all there surport. I dont really know what this site is about or if this kinda post is in the right place, I just need to talk. I thought i was a strong person, I loved to think life could throw any thing at me and I’d just throw myself head first back into it. But i lost everything and my ability too do the simplest things is just not there at the moment. If any one has had a similar experance let me know.
Hello, welcome to help.com, yes you are in the right place. Different people from all over the globe can drop by and rant on anything they want. This is an advice site and people will answer to your post when they are online or when they think they have the time to listen to your rant.
I feel your situation and i could not imagine how difficult it is for you now to face all these alone. The grief and loneliness among other things. Is there a friend to support you today like to just listen to you or who would do the talking with the landlord in your behalf? There might be an extra month that your girlfriend has paid so you can use it if there is while you are looking for a job or to just pull everything through.
losing someone you have held dear is very difficult. Take your time to grieve. Hang in there.
Kind of you to reply. Yeah I have friends, i’m just really really bad at talking about my problems (apart from to random web sites it would seem =)). I’m not so worried about finding a place to stay, i work and i’ll be able to sort myself out with somewhere to crash til I find an apartment in my breadline price range, its more the shock of everything thats messing me up. Ive never had to deal with anything like this, and the only person who I’ve ever felt comfortable enough to help me get through something this huge is gone. Its just so empty, I’m not after pitty. I don’t know what I want or what I need or whats worth doing. I just know I don’t want to be giving up. any way rant over. Time for a cig!
You know, one thing good thing about this site is i always find myself in other people. I too am not good with words—like explaining stuff about me, my concerns and putting them into words.
Pitty is not involved here. It is listening to someone who needs some ears. Keep us posted. :)
Emptiness, i know that word very much. take care hun.
Hello.
I’m very, very sorry to hear this. The best thing to do right now is to accept any help. Do you have a job?
Very sorry about your girl friend. Death of a loved one is in the top 5 stresses we face as humans. Doing what you are doing is probably the best medicine…talk about it, be as open as you can stand without worry of embarassment. Most people here at help.com are very gracious and care about those like yourself who face real issues. It will not be easy, and support from caring people will make it a little easier to deal with. Time will heal the hole that is now overwhelming you, try to get busy and think of what she would like for you to do. Never easy, but possible.
hey,i feel for you ,i really do.ive been going to counselling and that seems to help,(my gf died 4 weeks ago),also this website is a big help to me,there are lots of nice people on here.ive just been taking it a day at a time but it really shatters you doesnt it.
Sorry to hear about your girl mate, it does shatter you. Life as I know is over. Good advice counselling, i think group therapy might be more my thing, Can’t imagin anything would take away this emptyness in me.. Maybe this is the way I should feel I laughed yesterday and felt guilty, like it was disrespectful or something. Any ways keep in touch n let me know how your doing I hope you find a way to keep going.
you weren’t wrong to laugh
best to find humor in any situation.
Joel Phantom wrote:
Sorry to hear about your girl mate, it does shatter you. Life as I know is over. Good advice counselling, i think group therapy might be more my thing, Can’t imagin anything would take away this emptyness in me.. Maybe this is the way I should feel I laughed yesterday and felt guilty, like it was disrespectful or something. Any ways keep in touch n let me know how your doing I hope you find a way to keep going.
hey i know what you mean,i feel guilty too when i laugh.my gf died 5weeks ago now and i still miss her like mad..every single day,i cant believe im never going to see her gorgous face again.it is getting slightly easier tho pal,and im sure things will get a bit easier for you given time.the counselling really does help mate,i got mine sorted through my g.p.good luck joel,my fingers are crossed for you to be feeling happier soon.
Hello, I am sooo sorry to hear this mate :/
Hang in there, we’re all here for you. = )
joel, i could not imagine such loss. i have never had a signifigant other pass, but know how much it must hurt. i’ve lost alot of family members tho, and have found that conceling is the way to go. there are alot of support groups out there for pretty much any kind of agony life seems to bring.
i sincerely hope that all of your effects get in order soon. and want to let you know that you’re certainly in my prayers.
if you ever want to talk, send me a shout. take care of yourself.
xxoxx
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i want to reply but i am just speechless… what are you going to do?
How you doing. what’s that in your glass. My glass has bourbon Whiskey.
Oh Joel, I am so very sorry for you at what can only be a very sad time. I have to say that you are truly a lovely person to attempt to emphathise with me on my problems… which see insignificant by comparison. It is an unfortunate fact of life that no matter how low you feel, how desolate, how much you wish the world would stop so you can get off…. it trundles on irrespective of your feelings. It is one of the most harsh realities of life and you find yourself staring this straight in the face. What can I say to help? Well… from your girlfriends point of view, I doubt she would want you to be desolate forever… yes a period of grieving is necessary but she would understand that you have to move forward you have no choice… your on the conveyor belt called life. Its painful and it hurst like hell but (and don’t want to sound hard) but it is transitory… take small steps Joel and you’ll find your joints become less stiff… lean on those closest to you that you know you can lean on… and trust that you will come out the other side …
Thats pretty much what i’m trying to do. Its so hard to know if i’m going about this in the right mind set, cos i’ve never lost so much as a distant family member before this. I mainly come on here to vent when i’m at my worst, most of the time I seem to be able to keep it together. Thanks for all the kind words and advice every one. All you who said your there if I ever need to talk too, you don’t know how much that helps cos its a scariy thing being alone again. Take care xx
this too shall pass. i promise. my advice? find the nearest quaker meetinghouse, and go. stand up and tell your story. you will have an entire room full of people looking out for you and helping you. (i go to a quaker school even though i am not quaker, and it always amazes me how incredibly welcoming and moving they are).
give it a try.
I’m so sorry. I won’t give you any false words and tell you that everything will be okay and that you will be okay and everything will work itself out. See the thing is, yes, life will go on and you will one day be okay. Changed, yes, but you will live on. I know what you mean about keeping it together, but it’s okay to feel. It’s okay to grieve and feel this incredible pain inside and wonder how this sort of pain can exist.. and it’s okay to feel hollow. It’s also okay to smile and laugh and to live. Your girlfriend would have wanted that.
hey mate,it is a scary thing being alone again when youre not used to it,i hope you are coping with youre loss,im thinking of you pal,..all the best yeh and i hope things get easier for you
Cheers mate I’m thinking of you too, didn’t realise your girl lost her life to suicide. I don’t know if you’ve heard about all the stuff thats been going on in bridgend, but were very much in the same boat. When I started this thread I could’nt bring my self to mention that she killed herself. Honestly I feel like it was the doctors that killed her. We went for help about a month before she died and they turned her away. Its so annoying cos I know how bloody hard it was for her to go, and I was so so proud of her, but she didn’t get the help she went for, she left feeling far worse than when she went in (both times). Anyways I hope your holding up alright. Take care.
Your situation sounds really difficult. I hope you’re doing alright.
My advice for now is to just keep talking to people, stick around here, be around people. If you don’t like being alone, try and maybe join a club or something. Hang out with your friends. Don’t feel guilty about having fun.
From now on, though, I suggest you put your name on all documents…just to avoid something like getting kicked out again.
Well, I hope you’re doing okay. My condolences and best wishes to you.
Keep us updated ;)
I am so sorry to hear of your loss and those who have posted..
first things first, talk to your land lord and get an extension so that you can take care of where you are going with out haste. Second, keep searching for help like coming here, group therapy, there are councilors that deal with this and maybe some friends of your GF need it to and you can all get together for a session on this.
Its okay to laugh, infact I think you honor your GF by living for her. By laughing when she would… or seeing something from her point of view. As hard as it is, take the lesson of how presious life is and know that it is okay and you should enjoy yours ( when you are able) and you can grieve as well.
everything you are feeling is normal. Think about this too…. she left an incredible void in your life therefore, you also effect people just as profoundly as she did. So be kind, take your life and your effects on people serious and learn from this as hard as it is. Go smoke and have a brandy and toast to the good things she taught you.
Joel Phantom wrote:
Cheers mate I’m thinking of you too, didn’t realise your girl lost her life to suicide. I don’t know if you’ve heard about all the stuff thats been going on in bridgend, but were very much in the same boat. When I started this thread I could’nt bring my self to mention that she killed herself. Honestly I feel like it was the doctors that killed her. We went for help about a month before she died and they turned her away. Its so annoying cos I know how bloody hard it was for her to go, and I was so so proud of her, but she didn’t get the help she went for, she left feeling far worse than when she went in (both times). Anyways I hope your holding up alright. Take care.
hey i feel very angry towards doctors as well,very simular circumstances i feel.i hope you dont mind me asking this but was it you who found her?i found my girl dead ,i was arrested by police as i was the last to see her alive.i had just found phil dead and i was put in a cell for 6 hours was horrible ,im still on bail pending further inquiries(autopsy results) its just “police procedure “apparently.but anyway im getting over it very slowly,you will to but its always gonna hurt a lil bit,at least thats how i feel and il never stop missing her,all the little things i wanna tell her ,need to tell her-who do i tell these things to now.take care
hey I’m really sorry about your girlfriend, I can’t imagine a loss like that, but thanks for the help on my issue, even though i still don’t know what to do, any support helps.
i’m really sorry
Yeah I found her, was such a shock that I kinda draw a blank between finding her and the medics arriving. Probably the kindest way cos I doubt it was half an hour i’d want to remember. I find it hard to remember all the things i’ve lost and the things I miss at the moment, cos my dad died on saturday so i’m back to stage one with alot of things. Its hard trying to deal with losing both of them cos I don’t want to let go of eather and its very hard to make sense of all this. The events that took place and in the order they did have been probably my biggest fear since I found out how depressed my Angie was and how sick my dad was, but its not the end of the world feeling i was expecting. I guess when the worst things happen you realise things about your self, put your feelings aside and take care of those around you who are hurting too. Its a feeling of strength when your world is turned upside down and you realise you can keep fighting. I hope your doing ok Gorge, I feel some of your pain (even though I know its dffrent for every one)and know that its not some thing thats just gonna go away. Take care buddy, gimme a shout if your having a bad moment cos they seem to just come out of no where don’t they.
P.S Thanks lucky, my girl took that pic, only she could make me look even slightly camera friendly =)
Dear Joel,
Im so sorry to hear that.
I hope you are smiling as much as you can,
not the fake kind, but the ones that really mean something.
i lost my dad 3 years ago, it was sudden, and i had to mind my mom aswell, its completely autopilot for a while, but when your down just remember they need you, and when you get past the worst periods you’ll feel like you can handle anything, best of luck to you sweetheart you’ve had a tough run of it lately, just bear it for now its the best you can hope for, it’ll get better, life has a funny way of doing that
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