I can open jars and take care of spiders just fine, but the one thing I do mind about being single is waking up after a nightmare and not being able (or wanting) to go back to sleep because of the fear and loneliness that seems to sweep through the room. When it's really bad I reach out for one of the stuffed animals that sits on the big wicker chair next to my bed.
Since I've been doing a lot of this lately, I wondered if it's normal to hug a teddy bear so late in the game. When I typed in Google "is it normal to still sleep with a teddy bear?" I actually got lots of reassuring results.
These are just a few of the things I discovered:
*Maybe teddy bears are not typically high on the list when it comes
to identifying strategies that adults use in coping with life’s
stressors. By the time we have reached adulthood, most of us (except
perhaps me) have traded in our stuffed animals for more age-appropriate
items that we have chosen to comfort us. But whatever we have chosen —
and almost all of us have them — these devices serve to offer us solace
in times of distress.--from Psychology Today
*This comment made me feel better on gurl.com:
I love to snuggle up after picking up my kids at school with an orange
bear named Berry, a Jellycat “Black and Cream Puppy” named Spots, and a
blanket I crocheted when I was 7. Back in the day, we learned to
crochet at a young age. (If anyone here is as old as I am- I was born in
1966- then you know what I’m talking about!)
A teddy bear (obviously) can't ever whisper words of comfort or hug back, but sometimes having something cuddly to hold on to is almost enough.
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