I feel terrible that anyone needing support has not recieved it on this site! When I see a post where someone is hurting I try very hard to support them with all the compassion that I feel. I feel very badly that I didn't know that you had illness in your family, Mountain Ash, and I'm so very sorry for what you must be going through. I know you are a deep thinking, and very poetic and you must feel very strongly when someone you love is hurting. Godspeed with healing and I hope you will care for yourself as well as you are a lovely person.

Eagle Heart, I thank you for sharing too. I had no idea that this site WAS your home at this time. When I first posted to this thread, I mentioned that to some this could be their connection to the world. If that is so for you, it is good for you to share that so others can treat you in kind. I am very sorry if I ever hurt you with a post and you belond here as much as anyone. Please don't feel you have to pull back because of a few hot topics on this forum.

I feel the women here, for the most part, are kind and want to do the right thing. If there is a hot topic, it may be better to stay away from it and know it is not there to hurt you.

I am hurt here as well by one or two posters whom I try to avoid. It's hard, I know, when you feel that someone holds malice towards you.

Personally, I hold no malice, as I said in my original post towards anyone here. I like that current events can be discussed, as well as harder subjects, but I want room for the support this site can provide as well. Our lives have hurts in them daily at times and we must feel safe here.

I think that over time, the "hot topics," will separate themselves from the support needed and we can have both.

I am an optimist but I do believe, again, that all the women here are good and compassionate women.

Dancer