Little off-topic, but for those of you who are separated, maybe without kids, what do you do with your time?
I am only working part-time right now, so the free time is killing me. It is Friday night and I am bored to TEARS!!!!!
I can't read anymore self-help books. TV is driving my mind to a numb state. My husband took our friends with him (they were mostly his to begin with). The few friends I have made over the past year have been a great help, but you can only call/bug them so many times a week. Everyone my age (36) seems to be married with little kids.
I volunteer one night a week. Working out is starting to make me feel self-absorbed. If I lose any more weight I am going to be invisible.
Ideas, folks?
ME 40 HIM 48 Married one year. First for him Second for me Proud parents of a baby girl
Make something, fix something, do something with your hands that requires your full attention. Go to the races, go see a symphony, bowling, pool or visit an old folks home. Become a mentor for children, volunteer to coach, help out at the local community center or anything comparable.I'm sure you can get creative.
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Me 48 X's vary S 27 S 18 Back with high school sweety after 30 years..
Go to http://www.meetup.com and find groups in your area that are organized around your interests. I've done this and made some great friends. Interestingly most are divorced or separated!
If we really want to love, we must learn how to forgive. - Mother Theresa
I have kids but I get having too much time on your hands. At the moment I still have no job so I have all day and night. Days my kids are around. Nights... And every other weekend my H gets them so I have a couple days that I just don't know what to do with myself. This weekend being one of them. I was thinking of going window shopping or something of the sort. Just get out for a little while ya know? I'm not one that likes to do things alone but I really don't have any friends around so guess it's something I should get used to if my marriage goes south.
W: 33 H: 37 SS: 14 S: 7 S: 3 married 08/09/97 Seperated 11/02 05/07 H moved back 8/26/07
Skateboarding, basketball, movies, novels (NOT self-help), biking, dancing, volunteer (you said one night a week, do two), waterpark, hiking, church activities, piano lessons, guitar lessons, car shopping (just don't buy anything ), sporting events, theatre, new restaurants, video arcade, painting (pictures or walls or both), write the great American novel, mow the lawn, prune trees, plant trees and flowers, travel - go to the Grand Canyon if you haven't been, or Yellowstone, go camping, take up photography, learn a foreign language, should I continue?
Get used to doing things on your own, it's kind of liberating not being dependent on anyone else for your entertainment. You'll get some serious self-confidence and respect building too.
Have fun!
We can talk ourselves into defeat or we can talk ourselves into victory - we are creatures of our thinking.
3/31/07 - Hit with a brick, leaving the dent there...
i go out and meet as many women as i can. workout like a mad man. go to alot of ball game. read. sit on the beach. run the boardwalk, have random sex(just kiddin, well at least sometimes i do), sit by the pool, go to sleep early, watch tv, hang with friends, go out with nice looking girls, drink, eat at great restaurants and drink great wine, work, coach basketball, did i say have random sex yet,
god after looking at my list i cant believe i even miss her you know what come to think of it the hell with her.
), sporting events, theatre, new restaurants, video arcade, painting (pictures or walls or both), write the great American novel, mow the lawn, prune trees, plant trees and flowers, travel - go to the Grand Canyon if you haven't been, or Yellowstone, go camping, take up photography, learn a foreign language, should I continue?