Goodbye..........

Gemmzie

I'm sorry to hear things are carppy, I'll miss you a lot around here. Please feel free to pop in sometime and tell us you're okay Good luck with everything

System

You light up this board Keren. More even than SS x

LouiseJ

I have noticed your absence this week Keren and have missed you, I will continue to miss you and I am sure others will too xxx

Take care of yourself and I wish you good Karma in whatever you do :kisses3:

System

You're still going to the Leeds meet though yes?

Ellidee

Aww keren you will be missed so much by loads of people on here who love you, including me. I feel quite teary typing this. I feel that I don't belong on DFW because I am lucky enough not to have any debt, apart from the mortgage, So hope that peeps don't mind me lurking and posting, daft stuff usually.
I love it on here because of the wonderful people like yourself, tried other parts of the board and post on some of it, but it is the people on DFW who I seem to relate to the best IYSWIM . I love all the caring and camraderie and jokes , parties and innuendos etc etc.

Keren hunny I do hope that you go on to have the wonderful life that you truly deserve and find happiness with a man who treats you properly. Although I understand that you feel that you spend too much time on here and not in real life, I am guilty of that too, I hope that you have got some good friends who you can confide in and turn to if you need support.

It would be great if you could pop in from time to time just to say hello and let us know that you are alright, that would be great. My wish for you is that all your hopes and dreams come true. BE HAPPY XX El

sammy115

I am crying reading this. Keren you have and always will be an inspiration, whether it is on here or out in the 'real' world. You have a big big heart and you deserve the best.

Get out and live your life!!!!!:T (although you will be missed)

I wish you all the luck and love in the world and if you get what you deserve in life you will be rich and successful.
:A :A :A :A :A :A :A :A :A

LouiseJ

A message on behalf of Jinky who wont be around tonight but really wanted to send a message to you today Keren

"We will all miss you and wish you the very best in whatever path you choose to take":A

(Jinky has no plans to stop being totally mad any time soon):p

sallyx

Keren you are fantastic and you deserve all the happiness and success in the world. Your post has really made me take stock of my own life and computer usage! Good luck and if you're in my neck of the woods and you want a coffee or a toilet stop just pm me.
All the best xx

Burlesque_Babe

Thankyou all - you are all :A

Lenny - no, I won't be coming to Leeds, it's best if I just cut the line completely even though it is painful. Your other post brought tears to my eyes if I'm honest.

Louise - I've been away part of the week visiting family as I was at my nanna's funeral 7 hours away by train. It was partly this that made me stop and think where my life was going - when I get old, who will be at my funeral? Very few people if I'm brutally honest with myself - I have no social circle of friends where I live and a small family.

Sammy - don't be sad - you're a wonderful person and I've always loved your purple avatar

Bunny - my wonderful Bunny I know there are great things forecast for you in your life.

Toto - I've had your email, you have such an amazing life and career and you'll have such joy when Orlandia is born.

ZTD - unfortunately, I need more than words on a screen, but until I leave MSE and try to look at my life and my surroundings where I live rather than in the ether of the internet or the online community I don't know what it is I want.

I don't want to leave, but until I do, I won't be able to go out into the world and try to build relationships. MSE has become my crutch and that is never going to be a long term way of socialising.

Anway, my virtual spotted hanky is packed and the keys are through Martin's letterbox.

Keep the place tidy and don't make too much noise at the party. The mob on the House Price board are a leery enough lot as it is without you lot disturbing them

ltm07

keren29 wrote: »

.....from me.

I've decided the time has come to walk away from MSE.

The support over the last 3 years has been fantastic and I've turned my life around.

However, I now feel I have nothing to contribute and that there are many others who are much more experienced than me or are saying the same as I would so I just feel sometimes like a parrot repeating information.

I feel that I'm increasingly seeing MSE as my 'reality'. I spend hours on it every day, basically looking at words on a screen whilst the real world out there passes me by and it's not healthy (for me).

I need to look to putting my life back 'out there' in the real world - locally - where I live, not relying on the comfort from words on a computer.

My decision is for a mixture of reasons, a couple of them are MSE comment related (1 in fact from a troll, believe it or not) and some are from stuff going on over the last few days, a teetering relationship, a funeral and a few 'revelations' shall we say about my past. Life's too short to be sitting here pressing F5 or 'subscribed threads' constantly. Emotionally, I'm rock bottom and I need to prise myself out of my 'ruts' and look to try to change things and MSE is one of my 'ruts'.

To you all, I hope you reach the goals you desire and find happiness in your lives in whatever way you want it.

For those in debt - it gets easier - believe me, keep plugging away even when times are desparate, nights are long and life seems like it will never get better. I've had 2 credit card companies today virtually beg me not to close accounts when I called them and chucking whatever I wanted deal wise to keep me as a customer - a different story from when I was trying to lower the APR from 29% or so when I was in debt and they basically told me where to go.

Bunny - you're a wonderfully sexy woman, I admire your strength of character

Snaggles - you'll raise a wonderful son in Ryan, be proud of him.

Sarah (I_A) - I've noticed you're making more time for yourself recently - good for you, keep doing it.

Len - Do what makes you happy, mate.

Toto - good luck with the baby you drumming, fabulous woman

Jacs - hope it all works out

Tigtag - keep the frying pan nearby for MB

Jinky - keep being mad!


And to everyone I haven't mentioned. Maz, GingerSte, Louse, Lucy etc - I apologise, there's so many great people around. I guess a special thankyou to Martin for setting up MSE in the first place - if only it had been around 10 years ago.

I won't be coming back after today, I need to completely break away.

Take care all and do what makes you happy.

All my love
Keren xxxxxx

Hi keren(if you do happen to read this post). I have started to feel that I need to spend alot less time on here & more time in the real world too. There is no doubt about it, you people & Martin are fantastic people, but there is more to life than being on here 24/7. I did really get wrapped up in it earlier this year & I think that was the reason I was starting to feel ill myself. OH & I have take on board most of the great advice from Martin & you good people & have changed our spending habits no end. However it is the worst feeling in the world when you feel that you are getting somewhere & then you get an unexpected car bill or you change utility companies,only to find that the company that you have left go & take the £100's that you owe them out in one go. All around us we can see people in the same boat as us, but are still spending like there's no tomorrow. I have to say it they do seem to be enjoying life by not worrying about their debts. Saying that, we don't know what happens within their 4 walls. We have decided to find our happy medium. We have cut down the best we can & I know that there are always more ways to cut down, but sometimes changing utility companies every couple of months or trying our upmost to find the very best deals on things can feel like a full time job in itself. We will never go back to the way that we were spending before, but at the same time won't deny ourselves too much just because of our debts. Keren mentioned that she went to a funeral & for us this really puts things into perspective. We are friends with a couple who have got what seems like the ideal lifestyle. He has his own business,big house, nice car & lovely family. A few months ago his wife found out she had breast cancer & things don't look too good, especially as she is so young(still in 30's). It's things like this when we've realised that no amount of debt is more important than our health. So for me personally it will be a couple of hours a week on here rather than a couple of hours a day.