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All things masculine, big, tall, broad shoulders, body hair, deep voice, big strong hands, beard, a manly man and I'm weak at the knees.

I'm hating being single, I love my husband still. It's very lonely. How do I reduce that loneliness in the evenings when I have complete responsibility for our children so I can't go out?

I've had a whole month of struggling with this. I hope you feel better soon.

You sound like you're already considerate to how she feels and able to read the situation well. Trust your feelings and follow her lead. There's nothing wrong with gentle encouragement and I'm sure, if it was me, I'd appreciate the motivation to push myself a little and feel good about it afterwards. But if you notice…

I'm 5'6 I love tall men, there's something so good and secure snuggling into a big man...dreaming

I hadn't taken the knitting comment seriously! But perhaps it will be my next big love

Knitting isn't my thing. I hadn't even thought about dating or leading anyone on. I have a certain amount of attention from a couple of kind people but I'd feel far too guilty to lead them on, I really don't want anything serious, no. Hmm...best get googling knitting techniques after all.

Diet, I was married.

It's been less than a month and I have three children, their father doesn't take them away much. I'm concentrating on creating a calm, healing home life for them. It's really lonely when they go to bed though. Thanks, I need to try to enjoy these things but it's so much harder than I expected.

I'm so sad and lonely, I have never been alone before.

My head is a mess, how are you coping @TK6299 and @alush08 @kgecik?

I'm sorry to hear you're going through a break up, that's really difficult. I'm going through one too, it's lonely and I hate it.

That's so wonderful, well done.

My jeans are sliding down everywhere I go. Happy me!

Sorry Nnsando, me too.

I don't have a thing that's better yet as it's been less than two weeks and so far everything hurts but I'm encouraged that there may be some positives in the future.

I'm utterly heartbroken, separated a week.

I'm so sorry. My marriage dissolved a week ago too. It's so difficult but I'll happily trade rants, vents and insults if you need someone to listen!

Thanks @STLBADGIRL I'm having a better day, much calmer. How are you?

Thanks, it is pretty bad! But it's ok, I don't mind it being awful.

Thank you so much, I really appreciate the support here. I haven't told people in real life yet because I'm not sure how to approach it and I don't want to cause problems for my husband but I will begin to let people I love in as soon as I can. You're all wonderful.

Having a pretty terrible time but staying string for my children.

I'm not bearing up well, holding it together for the sake of my children but as soon as I dropped them all off at school/preschool I sobbed in the car park! I'm not sure I'll be able to continue running as much for a while but I'll stay on track with my diet, although today has been pretty appalling. Our family is reeling…

Thanks CSARdiver but unfortunately it's too late for us, as of yesterday I'm officially single after 10 years, though it's nothing to do with sex or weight loss. Completely and utterly heartbroken.

Ah, glad you enjoyed it all at least, sure the guilt will fade soon!

In my underwear today (need to do laundry!) I noticed when I'm sitting there are no folds or rolls, so pleased.

Hope you enjoyed your day of overindulgence.

My first, and only tattoo is a very badly drawn, entirely unoriginal tiger on my left hip. It's terrible and I had it done on a whim when I was struggling aged 18. It's amusingly bad so I don't mind it but it reminds me of a difficult time.

The responses here are humbling.