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Adoptive parents: Would you do it again?
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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 748783" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>Hi Nomad: Didn't you sleep last night? By my calculation you were up in the wee hours. Oh. I see now. You were just up very early. I have a hard time figuring out time zones.</p><p></p><p>I think you have hit on something. I think all of us need somewhere to belong. Increasingly we have a hard time. I read that since the 80's people self-report that they have fewer friendships and they long for friends. For whatever reason the structural and community supports, the way we work, the patterns of belonging to groups and churches and synagogues, no longer support close friendships in the ways they once did.<em> I thought it was just me.</em> But apparently it's not.</p><p></p><p>This is a real problem. Because I have a hard time seeing how it will change, as more and more of us use social media as a primary mode of communication and belonging. However much I love this site and it has worked for me, I wish you all were in my neighborhood or town, or that I felt the same degree of connection to people I could sit with and see and hug. </p><p></p><p>For me, consistent to what you write, I am trying very hard to locate myself in an identity that is outside of just me, principally through my faith, but also in my community. It's hard, because outside of faith traditions, the mechanisms do not seem to exist.</p><p></p><p>Luckily for me, I have a profession, potentially, around which I can build connection. So, I am challenging myself to do so.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 748783, member: 18958"] Hi Nomad: Didn't you sleep last night? By my calculation you were up in the wee hours. Oh. I see now. You were just up very early. I have a hard time figuring out time zones. I think you have hit on something. I think all of us need somewhere to belong. Increasingly we have a hard time. I read that since the 80's people self-report that they have fewer friendships and they long for friends. For whatever reason the structural and community supports, the way we work, the patterns of belonging to groups and churches and synagogues, no longer support close friendships in the ways they once did.[I] I thought it was just me.[/I] But apparently it's not. This is a real problem. Because I have a hard time seeing how it will change, as more and more of us use social media as a primary mode of communication and belonging. However much I love this site and it has worked for me, I wish you all were in my neighborhood or town, or that I felt the same degree of connection to people I could sit with and see and hug. For me, consistent to what you write, I am trying very hard to locate myself in an identity that is outside of just me, principally through my faith, but also in my community. It's hard, because outside of faith traditions, the mechanisms do not seem to exist. Luckily for me, I have a profession, potentially, around which I can build connection. So, I am challenging myself to do so. [/QUOTE]
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