tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-670426779858438488.post4611901512418247019..comments2023-06-16T16:08:23.446+01:00Comments on Edinburgh Housewife: Singles and SorrowMrs McLeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095035617334068201noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-670426779858438488.post-67258851678806255752015-07-31T23:29:23.138+01:002015-07-31T23:29:23.138+01:00Thanks Anamaria! And please pray for the wee darli...Thanks Anamaria! And please pray for the wee darling's (probably unbaptized) soul. (I'm a convert, most of my friends are Protestants that don't practice infant baptism. I haven't dared ask my poor friend about it, but it weighs heavily on me.)Mari Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07171764404064781371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-670426779858438488.post-13828223116385302122015-07-31T19:58:15.309+01:002015-07-31T19:58:15.309+01:00Praying for your friend. That is so sad.Praying for your friend. That is so sad.Anamariahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15389152787880010149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-670426779858438488.post-91866045311512065622015-07-31T11:18:24.653+01:002015-07-31T11:18:24.653+01:00I always knew because of Jo March crying over the ...I always knew because of Jo March crying over the thought of Meg marrying John, and because of Anne of Green Gables feeling sad about Diana. In Jo's and Anne's case, they weren't at the stage of feeling sad about being Single, though. L.M. Alcott was happy to live life as a Single woman, totally devoted her her crazy old dad, and L.M. Montgomery knew firsthand, poor thing, how difficult marriage can be. I like how when Amy gets married, Jo starts feeling left out, and how relieved and happy she was when Professor Bhaer came to the rescue. Originally LMA didn't want Jo to marry at all, but her readers begged and pleaded, so she came up with "a funny husband for Jo." In the Winona Ryder film, they really sexed him up by getting Gabriel Byrne to play him! Woot! I don't think LMA would have cast either WR or GB in a zillion years! :-D<br />Mrs McLeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18095035617334068201noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-670426779858438488.post-3528031889653426692015-07-31T11:12:02.736+01:002015-07-31T11:12:02.736+01:00Oh my, how sad! I cannot think of anything sadder-...Oh my, how sad! I cannot think of anything sadder--that is not one's own fault, of course--than burying one's own child. Yes, there are lots of hard things in life that we can do nothing about, and crying is the normal and hopefully healing response.Mrs McLeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18095035617334068201noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-670426779858438488.post-24999690719572487222015-07-31T02:41:52.776+01:002015-07-31T02:41:52.776+01:00Thank you for saying "of course you feel sad&...Thank you for saying "of course you feel sad". When my best friend got married (when we were 23) I was so terribly sad but felt guilty about it. I thought I must be a terrible person and nobody ever told me it was understandable to feel that way. I knew I was losing her - not completely but we would never be the kind of close friends we were before. I wish I had somebody say to me "of course you feel sad" back then. <br /><br />Aussie girl in NZAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-670426779858438488.post-76628660445897605212015-07-31T01:22:48.057+01:002015-07-31T01:22:48.057+01:00Thanks for this! I've just had to witness both...Thanks for this! I've just had to witness both things this past month. One of my friends recently got engaged after a pretty brief dating period. Why not me?! Tear, tear. My second friend reminded me that marriage and family does not solve everything. She just buried her first and only child. He never left the NICU. Since it was a genetic issue, he might be the only child she will ever have.<br /><br />Thanks for reminding me that emotion is normal, but that life still has hard parts regardless of a person's station in life.Mari Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07171764404064781371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-670426779858438488.post-5358585360801821192015-07-30T18:14:27.150+01:002015-07-30T18:14:27.150+01:00Yes, I'd say so!Yes, I'd say so!Mrs McLeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18095035617334068201noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-670426779858438488.post-53388769613560969412015-07-30T16:27:38.533+01:002015-07-30T16:27:38.533+01:00"If you wallow so much that you get stuck in ..."If you wallow so much that you get stuck in the mud-bath, go see your priest or consult a counselor."<br /><br />Better yet, do both! Especially if you are experiencing any kind of psychological health crisis that has the potential to be life threatening, because there are professionals who can help medically and there is also a Sacrament just for that (well, life threatening health conditions in general). <br /><br />I'm not just talking about temptations to self harm; I knew a woman with OCD and some accompanying disorders who once reacted so badly to a change in medication that she had a psychotic episode and woke up in hospital thinking she had died and gone to hell. That strikes me as a potentially life threatening health crisis worthy of the Sacrament of Anointing to me if there ever was one.Heather in Torontonoreply@blogger.com