Thunderbear,

I to spent an awful Thanksgiving mostly crying and feeling very very lonely. I live in another state than my daughter and knowing she was with her new in laws for the day made me feel very left out. Then when I went to facebook and saw all my cousins talking about how they were going to my Aunts for the day it just made it that much worse.

I to have always been "the black sheep" and our family get togethers on my mothers side have always turned violent. Vey dysfunctional family...and on my fathers side they just couldn't give a rats a## about me. I"m the last in my immediate family, as my brothers and dad died just last year. It was very hard to be alone this year and I know exactly what your going thru....

I like the suggestions here of starting my own tradition of helping others on a holiday when I'm alone. And just may have to find something just like that for Christmas. With the next biggest holiday around the corner, I sure don't want to feel like I did yesterday again. Maybe we can compare notes on what we plan on doing to help others this year? We can keep each other going?? I'm learning even far away friends can help each other thru the rough times.

Huge