12-11-2017, 10:42 AM
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11 hours ago, silverwolf1 said:
For me the diagnosis came after losing my longest, and first true, partner Tippy. I think that happens a bit too.
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True that....losing my soulmate, my partner that accompanied me for 22 years of my life was what led me closest to a depressive state of mind. I´ve never had any problems from keeping my mouth shut about my special relation to horses, but when I was lying beside my partner´s dead body, when I prepared her for the incinerator, this was a huge blow to my inner balance. My mare´s ashes I keep in a urn and everytime I walk by the little "altar" I built for her, with pictures of her, with her last set of horseshoes, with her saddle and all her other stuff, I suddenly experience a "microdepression", lasting for a couple of seconds. Her death severely kicked me off the rails for months and even today, with four mares I own and one of them being a very gentle, loveable and sweet partner, I still feel this void in me whenever I walk by that urn. I´d happily endure some inconveniences of not being able to openly tell everyone about my orientation if that could bring her back to me....
