Feeling sad, dh is away...

[Lisa loves Pooh]

Jynohn, I understand how you feel and know you were not invalidating the OP's feelings. It is hard to be on the opposite side of the spectrum and have to keep "sucking it up" too. I hope your last couple months apart fly by quick!

To the OP-homecomings are wonderful!

The suck it up comment was geared to ANYONE for ANY REASON who feels the need to come on to a thread and make statements that in anyway demean someone who is down. (Spouse being away, your broke your thumb--whatever!)


I have to suck it up too---heck, I was afraid when I posted my thread a while back b/c my hubby was not military and was soo afraid that military spouses would jump on and say "well at least....blah blah blah". It doesn't make it any less difficult to be a single parent.

 

[Blondy876]

I'm sorry I ever posted.

 

[Pop Daddy]

I'm sorry I ever posted.

lol

 

[Jynohn]

Jynohn, I understand how you feel and know you were not invalidating the OP's feelings. It is hard to be on the opposite side of the spectrum and have to keep "sucking it up" too. I hope your last couple months apart fly by quick!

Thank you!!!

To the OP, I'm sorry if you construed my comments as insensitive. It certainly was not my intent. I happen to have a different perspective, but I will not hijack your thread any longer.

I hope your husband returns home soon and you enjoy the rest of your weekend.

 

[dopeys biggest fan]

She would also say "keep pouting like that and a bird will come along and perch on your lip and poop in your mouth!"

 

[Disney Doll]

You know, there's something to be said about the "it could be worse" mentality.

It got me through 6 years and $100,000 worth of infertilty treatemnts and followed a couple of years later by the deaths of both of my in-laws within a 9 months of each other. At least for me, in a sick way, looking at someone worse off than me does make me feel better.

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

My grandma - -who really was a crabby old lady, but hilarious and fun too -- used to respond to every complaint with the phrase "well it's better than a wart on your nose".

Which had the bonus effect of making us laugh as well as putting our problem in perspective.

She would also say "keep pouting like that and a bird will come along and perch on your lip and poop in your mouth!"

Maybe she was more crazy than crabby....

But the point is - it seems we are all blessed with spouses who are so wonderful that they are worthy of being missed and longed for when they are gone. Which is something to be thankful for. So we should all cheer up and stop picking on each other.

Oh where do grandmas come up with this stuff!

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

I'm sorry if I've offended anybody with "it could be worse".

Just a DIS pet peeve of mine--when an OP--in a bad spot....gets hit unnecessarily with the obvious (that her hubby isn't in a war zone in this case).

 

[Jynohn]

I'm sorry if I've offended anybody with "it could be worse".

Just a DIS pet peeve of mine--when an OP--in a bad spot....gets hit unnecessarily with the obvious (that her hubby isn't in a war zone in this case).

I think we all got a little riled up here unnecessarily, myself included. I just need to learn to stay away from these types of threads, knowing they're a sore spot for me.

I try to keep a brave face on to friends, family and co-workers, so I guess the DIS is my form of release.

va32h is right, we should all just be grateful we have people in our lives we love enough to miss!

 

[KathyTX]

Closing at OP's request.