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LOVE...found and then lost  

stardust81937 87M
4345 posts
7/2/2014 8:00 am
LOVE...found and then lost

LOVE...found and then lost

Love, found and then lost, is the subject of this piece of ridiculousness. I have a dearly loved friend whom I've known for years, who comes to visit M. and I, and Raggedy Ann. (Our dog).

...Jim, his name is Jim. He drives out here into no-mans-land, and visits with us for a day of rapid fire talk where we three solve all the problems of the world.

It's pretty darned nice when three adults can sit quietly together and discuss ideas of making the world function better.

Jim, now lives in his family home in Whittier, without the family, because they're all dead...

Whittier, is a suburb of Los Angeles on the East side of L.A.. Jim never married, and in fact has lived in the same house in Whittier, Calif. all his life.

He's been in love with a woman he used to work with in L.A., who retired when Jim retired. He's been in love with D. for years... After her retirement, the woman moved to Canada, leaving Jim high and dry. Well, she--D.-- IS Canadian and has her string of relatives in Eastern Canada.

So, Jim is torn between staying where he's spent all of his life, or moving up to Niagara Falls (on the United States side), to be close to his one true love.

Jim is an only , and since both his parents are dead, the place in Whittier,Calif., belongs to him and he can do what he wants with it. The house is all paid off, but since the real estate tumble in '08, if Jim were to sell the house now, he would be losing a lot of its value in order to unload it.

It's obvious to me and M., that Jim's love, D, doesn't love J. the way Jim loves her.

Jim has never been married. He's a decade younger than me, but hasn't had many sexual escapades. In my mind, selling his house here, and moving to Niagara Falls would be a huge mistake.

At 67--Jim's age--that kind of an abrupt change would be disastrous. Both Jim and D. are pretty asexual people, and Jim has a full life here. Jim dabbles in the stock market, and does well in it. He also belongs to a number of political groups in Whittier and I could see him running for some minor office in Whittier, and probably winning the seat on some board or council, which would suit his personality fine.

Marisol has enough sense to keep her opinion about Jim's moving, or not moving, to herself.

Of course I've told Jim exactly what I think. Both M. and I have met D, and she's a nice, attractive woman, but I feel she has other interests than the one's Jim has. I'm sure D. likes Jim a lot, but her affection for Jim is nothing like Jim's affection for her.

Besides, I'd hate for Jim to leave this area and not be able to visit us in out desert home three or four times a year.

What do you think????

Is following a love who's left you high and dry worth it???

Do you think splitting from an area where you're comfortably situated at the age of 67 to follow a person who was once close to you a smart move????

Just how FAR would you go for LOVE???

by david stardust.... Wednesday morning, July 2, 2014....





justskin1 72M
13175 posts
7/5/2014 5:03 pm

You did not mention how much they discussed her moving and his possible move or her staying before she left. I get the impression there was not enough mutual passion to make his moving worth it.

If you see me in the real world, come say "Hi Justskin."

I always behave. Preferably not well.


stardust81937 87M
8340 posts
7/3/2014 3:53 pm

    Quoting  :

Doing something like that when you're in your twenties or thirties is ONE thing, but Jim--my friend--is in his upper sixties, and I really think it would be about the worst thing he could do.


stardust81937 87M
8340 posts
7/3/2014 3:50 pm

    Quoting silk_petal_rose:
    I have friends that she lives here in quebec canada, and he lives in Australia....... what they do is, each year they take turns. she travels to Australia for 6 months and the next yr he travels to quebec for 6 months out of the yr. This has been going on for the 4 yrs. they've know each other.
I know people in the movie industry do that sort of thing all the time, but for me, I would think NO WAY... I really dislike traveling, especially in this day and age where half the time the plane gets grounded for one reason or another, and the searches that go on trying to board are too hard to put up with. When my son and his mother were still living in Amsterdam, I went over there, and it was exhausting.


silk_petal_rose 60F  
2363 posts
7/3/2014 6:49 am

I have friends that she lives here in quebec canada, and he lives in Australia....... what they do is, each year they take turns. she travels to Australia for 6 months and the next yr he travels to quebec for 6 months out of the yr. This has been going on for the 4 yrs. they've know each other.

silky...


stardust81937 87M
8340 posts
7/2/2014 2:22 pm

He bought one of those battery powered cars and made the trip across country to visit her a couple of times, but I don't think he's gonna' move.

Once you're settled in S. Calif. you hardly can find a better place to live..


stardust81937 87M
8340 posts
7/2/2014 2:21 pm

    Quoting sweet_VM:
    Sorry for you lost.. I would do anything for love. After they are gone you have to move one.. Always treasure the memories.. hugs V
It's for a friend of mine, sweetness.I'm very secure here with M. and neither one of us would more from here for anything... dave


sweet_VM 65F
81699 posts
7/2/2014 11:39 am

Sorry for you lost.. I would do anything for love. After they are gone you have to move one.. Always treasure the memories.. hugs V

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rm_19harley86 74M
45446 posts
7/2/2014 8:29 am

That's a decision he will have to make

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