i lived in my house for 51 years and 4 months

[MADem]

5. I understand how you feel. Take the time to grieve.

And once you think you're done, look forward to new adventures.

I would suggest that, to sort of draw a line under that chapter of your life, you do something that YOU have always wanted to do--take a trip, a cruise. even (you can find pretty cheap ones at the last minute if you can be at all flexible), or whatever strikes your fancy. If you have to go alone, do it and bring a selfie stick. Talk to strangers. Have a new experience--do a little living.

Try to carve YOUR space out of your condo. You have your things, your memories, the stuff that is familiar. Smile at the neighbors and wave.

Keep living, keep persevering.

As someone who had to move around a lot, by necessity, it was always difficult to pull up those roots and replant. It was a terribly painful thing, and I did it, over and over, for decades on end.

But it can be done. And the pain does abate. Not straight away, but eventually.

Funny thing, when I retired, I started getting itchy to move at the two year mark--I had a feeling that I needed to get on an airplane and go somewhere! I scratch that itch with travel every so often.

Do something for yourself. Unapologetically. It might help and it can't hurt.