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About me - Angelina Castro

I love to write.
I work 8-5 in accounting.
My dream job is to be a feature writer of a famous newspaper
and to travel all over the world
writing about anything I please.

I am enjoying my freedom.

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Relationships & Family > Grief & Loss Coping with pain: It doesn't take guts - it takes sheer determination: 1 of 5

The pain of loving and wanting someone has been the most excruciating pain in my life. Unrequited love is painful. I feel like someone has put a knife to my heart and now and then delights in twisting it around and around. Then the pain stop and I go on my knees and cry out to God for relieve. I am lonely. I want him near me...
Relationships & Family > Online Dating Internet intimacy: Reality or illusion: 5 of 22

The answer to a question of Internet intimacy, if it is a reality or illusion, from my experience and experiences of others I know, is that it is an illusion. A better word, I believe, is a "fantasy" wherein imagination is the catalyst to bring on intimacy. One of my friends said that she had met a guy on the net who had bee...
Relationships & Family > Grief & Loss Dealing with death: strategies for coping with the passing of loved ones: 9 of 31

After a long and lengthy illness, my best friend and dear husband passed away. He was at hospice and surrounded by his children and other loved ones. It was like a family reunion with family members and friends we had not seen for a long time appearing. My husband was loved because he was such a giving man. He was widely kno...
Relationships & Family > Dating Psychology Being complete as a woman without a man: 10 of 29

After enduring a very bad and abusive marriage, I am always amazed that I am still alive and thriving. Have you ever been in a stifling and boring job and when you look at the clock and it's time to go, you run out and want to shout and chant at the top of your lungs, "FREEDOM, FREEDOM, FREEDOM!" It is the same after I left ...
Relationships & Family > Divorce Psychology Empty bed syndrome: Coping with the absence of a lover: 8 of 22

My husband passed away last night and he hadn't slept in our bed for the longest time and I also. He slept in a hospital bed for two months and I slept on a cot next to him. I never left his side. I stayed with him till the end. Sometimes I would awaken to see him being given a shot. Sometimes I awaken to see him being hoist...
Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: Taking the bus: 28 of 52

She loved taking the bus. She could take a short nap if she had stayed up a little late the night before or read and the best thing she loved most of all was people watching. Besides, driving in the traffic early in the morning took too much brain activity; she could do that at work. He came on board. He had come on to her c...
Creative Writing > Reflections Reflections: When you love Mr. Wrong: 20 of 36

When you love Mr. Wrong you are on a carousel. Your emotion goes up, goes down. He becomes the barometer of your emotions and the reason for the sun in your days and the darkness of your nights. Be not deceived, dear Woman in Love, for Mr. Wrong knows the affect he has on you and once he does, he schemes on ways to suck mone...
Relationships & Family > Dating Commentary Thoughts on online dating: 21 of 34

The first thing I want to say is that before the Internet ever existed people have connected via snail mail as pen pals and even more as picture brides from foreign countries. Marriages were successful and marriages were not successful. Risk were taken with results varying from "wow" to "ooh, yuky yuk". But it is no differen...
Relationships & Family > Love & Relationships Long distance relationships: How to make them work: 17 of 27

I am currently in a long distance relationship and we have known each other for just seven months now but it seems as though we have known each other much longer than that. We are 10,000 miles from each other, a world away separated by oceans and continents and countries but we stay connected through the modern world's techn...
Relationships & Family > Love & Relationships Feasibility of long distance relationships: 12 of 18

The best advice I can give you from having been in one is DON'T! Spare yourself the heartache and the pain and the sleepless night. Don't do it if you can't TRUST the person and do TRUST yourself when you feel something is amiss. I gave it a shot and ended giving more than I received. We were 10,000 miles away and what happe...