My step dad pretty much exists. He does nothing now winter has set in and he's not out tending to the garden. He sees his neighbours a couple of times a week but he's bored to tears and miserable.
Average person needs a minimum of 8 hugs a day for adequate oxytocin and endorphine secretion.
The 8 hour time difference doesn’t help. Apart from emails I only speak to him at the weekends when I’m not at work. Honestly my heart breaks for him. I miss my mum terribly but I wasn’t with her nearly every day for the 29 years he was. And now he’s freezing cold as well with the heating kaput. I really really just wish we could put our feet up, get drunk and watch soccer or a game show called The Chase together that we both like.
He sprung 3 leaks so half of the kitchen has been dug up and he has a hole in the wall while they were trying to diagnose what was wrong. He lives in the middle of nowhere and now on major lockdown for a month so gosh knows when anyone can come out to actually fix it. It was going to be a couple of weeks as it was after they found what was wrong.
He sounds like an absolute melt
He didn't have a roaring social life as it was but a pensioner who is still heartbroken after my mum going last year...just miserable. A couple next door would have him round for dinner or a cream tea just to try and keep his spirits up but from today not even that's allowed.
His wife of 29 years died last year. He's a pensioner in his 70s. Jog on or start this in the OT.
