MySweetSubmssive -> RE: Maybe I am a Whore! (4/7/2006 10:32:44 AM)
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Susan, I am so sorry that you got the email that you did. You made it clear that you are primarily looking for friends and information, that you want to get to know, with integrity, a long-buried part of yourself. But I also find grief to be a strange thing, something that people feel like they can judge from the outside, and many folks haven't gone through. My own husband died of cancer 10 years ago. We had a good, though not perfect, relationship. I loved him and was happy with him. And in the days and weeks after his death, I wanted sex ... lots of it. I was a part of the pagan community in our city, and I thought that, by rights, all the pagan men should have slept with me. I wanted comfort, love, but mostly ... to feel like I was alive! I think it's pretty typical to want to grap onto life after you've been released from caring for someone who is moving toward death. I feel lucky that I was able to feel normal in the way I wanted to embrace life. It seemed odd to me, but I knew it was right, and a sane way to express myself. And this was true even though I adored my husband. I remember how fragile I was after his death, and how open I was. If people expressed strong negative feelings around me, it flattened me. I can imagine how painful it was to get those emails that you got. In the year before Rod died, we had no sex. I realized when he was diagnosed that it was because he was so ill. But before then I felt so at bay. We were monogamous, so if he didn't want to have sex, I didn't get any. And that was profoundly upsetting. I felt rejected and I felt cut off from my own sexuality. A whole part of myself was denied and shut down. And you endured this situation for so much longer. I would think that on some level it would be a relief that your husband died, because it released you to enter back into life (I'm not trying to put words into your mouth). But that can feel terrible to admit -- I know it was for me. But that's normal, too, to feel that. Who knows what the right way to express your grief is (your grief for him, but also for yourself)? It's a mystery that we move through. Maybe you don't know, but certainly a stranger doesn't. Best thoughts and care to you.
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