55andsingle

@optimist, thank you again!

@optimist, thank you for the encouraging words! I will continue to hope. I am also caring for an elderly, and unwell, parent. Do i need to do anything beyond the hygiene recommended to protect children?

Toughluck, take it easy on yourself. I am bipolar and unexpectedly single at age 55!! Yesterday i received a diagnosis of "H". I understand the challenges and difficulties of negotiating a relationship with someone unfamiliar with the quirks of the bipolar personality! Now there is one more issue for a potentential partner to have to deal with. I fear being alone too. My therapist and i have been working on learning to love myself, so i won't be so emotionally dependant on someone else. Then there are fewer folks to mess with my head and make me crazy--er! Lol! I hope someone can give me reassurance that there is life (and a sex life!) after H. I am dealing with a lot of shame, and feeling quite stupid. At my age, i should have known better. Yikes!