Starting Out

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Created on Monday, 25 February 2013 13:55

Written by WOW Admin

It is hard finding yourself alone at any age, especially if the relationship with your loved one was a true partnership with shared interests and plans for the future. It makes it so much harder looking on at couples whose relationships have stood the test of time and who enter middle age, with the prospect of retirement together. We look to the future and see ourselves in this place but in a solitary state and wonder how we will cope on our own. This is difficult to envisage as we all have our own way of negotiating life’s journey.

Some of us will use this time to travel and have a few adventures if we have the time and money to do so; others will be satisfied to throw themselves into the peak of their career or family life; but others may find themselves becoming more and more withdrawn and experiencing loneliness and feelings of frustration as we look on at our friends who are still with their life partners and fulfilling long term plans together. But it doesn’t have to be like this.

If you have made your mind up to register on this website, it is because you really do want to change your status. Deciding to meet others who have been bereaved is a great starting point for the basis of a friendship and means that you don’t have to explain away any awkward background history and you are less likely to experience the emotional baggage, which can become difficult to share.

You will find that you are in a very safe environment here with a team of moderators (not computers) checking each profile to ensure its validity, and anyone suspected of not being who or what they say they are, is immediately removed. Take time completeing your profile, add a photo, or photos, and although you may not find your perfect soul mate straight away, (although this has been known) you are on your way…