Your sad and moving post made me think of my sisters. All of them, my 6 blood sisters and my spiritual sisters, the lovely and wonderful ladies I am lucky to have in my life as best friends. I think that’s because I know I have their true and strong love in my times of great despair and weakness.

There sometimes comes a dark but pivotal time in many a woman’s life when she has to look around her and at her life and realize that she has no choice but to look within herself to find the real love she needs to carry her through the pain. Much as I truly believe in love, I do not believe that anyone can “rescue” or be the “savior” of anyone else. You are the salvation of YOU, and those who love and support you give you the strength you need along the way to do that. It takes a woman much time and sometimes much pain to realize this about herself.

On the other hand, relying on my limited knowledge of the little I do know of men, most men shy away from public displays of naked emotion or emotional discussions. It makes them very uncomfortable. The man may have been frozen because he did not know how to handle what was happening in front of him, not because he was mean. Men don’t deal emotionally on the same level or in the same way women do. Your being witness to this may have given you more insight into what the dynamic between them actually was and yo may have picked up far more than we did from what you wrote.

Loved your post very much Shopa…