Kind of Eerie!!

I hear what you're saying. At some point, our kids will be grown & gone & it will be just our spouses we are with.....provided we are lucky enough to have one. I think people adjust to their life's situation. My MIL is alone (divorced rather than widowed) & I swear she is always on the go with a full social calandar. She is very involved in her church & has friendships with others who are alone at home. This doesn't mean she's not lonely on those nights she is eating dinner at home alone & I try to remind that to myself when she sometimes stops by at inopportune times.

[Janet]

I have a whole new respect for those that are alone. I don't know why that just happened to come into my thoughts. From where I was sitting at the table, the side yard was so pretty, sun is shining, but this great sense of eating alone and sadness crept all through me. Some are alone I know, by choice and that's okay. Like you said, some have very busy, full wonderful lives, but it's the coming home to an empty house, eating alone, no one to say goodnight or I love you to before going to sleep. It makes me so sad to think about.