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I am grateful for the 26 years (as of July 11!) that my wife and I have been married. What a woman!

Its always appropriate to reply, 4EM. Especially if done with kindness.

No sorry's needed, Frame. Really, just working it out for myself by writing here.

No worries, friend.

It happens every time in my experience. Every time. The tenor of a chat or email exchange changes when a user finds out I am male. It doesn't matter if the person I'm emailing or chatting with is male or female. Its as if the value of what I say changes because of my sex. Of course, the fact is, I s...

Thoughts are with you, Alaska.

4EM,

Please check your PM/email box here on the site. Left you a message.

Kindest,

nenkohai

Wow, right on, Frame! Good words.

Philule, Depression is a daily concern for me. Battle, maybe. I've been using meds (of course under a psychologist's care) for about 18 years or so. For me, depression is managed, rather than beaten. I'm fine-tuning that management. With good success. But, I've gone through hell to find these manage...

At 26 my mother contracted polio. In the throws of it, she was paralyzed. Four weeks in an iron lung. Over time, she recovered enough to be mobile again. About 80%. BUt the nerve damage was done and that percentage would decline over the years... Her body already damaged, mom fell and broke her leg ...

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and many many more

Hi Pilule I wish I had good words for you, bro. I say that because I know anything I might say to try to help will probably sound trite. I know that anything I have to say IS easy for me to say. And Depression really has a very wide range of feelings and symptoms. So, I know I may not "get"...

And I know what did it. I'll sound like an awful person. Father-in-law visiting for the week. Just changes the house dynamics (with two kids and two dogs). And, also, the US Supreme court ruling on DOMA. DOMA was draconian and needed to be struck down. I'm startled, however, at just how angry I've b...

and... bumping again.

bumping.

because I can.

klmm, I get that. I've DONE that. Its been years of that cycling for me. Rebuild, deflate, rebuild, deflate, ad nauseum. And when I started to realize how I hated what was happening to me, I started swearing a lot. I got angry. Then I just sorta froze. Stopped in place. I asked myself, do I deflate ...