I get angry when I see people doing well. I have a "friend" who is a young widow and she posts pictures of her with friends and doing runs. I remember, because she did not have to worry about money and her mother is around, she took more than one trip with her kids to far away beaches her first year. In small ways, I hate her for being able to do that.
When I see pictures of friends with kids, doing things with both parents, I get pissed off. I go to the hardware store with my kids and after 3 minutes I am ready to tear their arms off and staple their butts to the floor. Since the moving stuff started, the only "fun" time they get is when friends help out and take them to play. I thought it might be nice to take them out for dinner last night...until I realized it's just me...no buffer, no help, no second set of hands. And that would just have been asking for more of the same *see arms and butts comment above.
Seriously...it makes me so bleeping angry to see people who have someone to hold hands with, to sit beside, to help set the table. John used to be able to help me relax, make me laugh, when we were out and I was getting frustrated. Not always, but he always tried.
When I bought my first house, my mother gave me the down payment and was then able to deduct it from her taxes, like many parents do for their child's first home. I never worried too much about owning my own place, because I bought it to be here in Frederick County, near John. I knew he would help if I needed anything fixed or looked at, and I knew if he couldn't fix it or didn't know what was going on, his dad was right there to help. The only other single family home I have owned, because that first one was a townhouse, was in Hagerstown when John and I were finally married. Aiden was born when we lived in that house. John put the fence in, he built shelves for the basement. He built a gate for the fence on the porch so that Nikko and Aiden could be out there and we could relax and not worry they'd run into the street. Here, I'm going to have to roll up my sleeves a hell of a lot more. I am going to have to call for help, learn how to watch youtube videos to fix and do things...
All while raising my babies on my own. While not knowing how in the world to date. While desperately not wanting to shut myself off from the possibility of dating. While mourning the loss of my puppies. While trying to fit about 2100 sq feet of stuff into about 1300 sq feet of space. While grieving the man of my dreams. While teaching. While trying to get my three and six year old kiddos to eat more than just mac and cheese, pizza, and hot dogs without shoving their adorable faces into plates of new and, apparently, "disgusting" entrees.
I just want to be seen. I want to go from a place where I am cared for immensely and helped deeply, and easily forgotten about for days, to a place where I am someone's everything...or almost. I want that look in a pair of eyes...that look that says "I'm home" when he sees me, regardless of where we actually find ourselves. I want to allow myself to dream again, to find another man of my dreams. Problem is, I don't know how I did it the first time.
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