1. It is none of your business when and who a widow/er dates. When you lose your spouse, you can make your own dating rules, OK? Or maybe you'd prefer to spend the rest of your life alone. That's your choice. I think losing your spouse at a young age is the second worst thing that can happen to a person. (First, if you don't have kids.) Give widowed people some slack. If they can find their way back to happiness, they've worked damn hard to get there.
2. Forget about analyzing and comparing the widow/er's new partner as compared to their dead spouse. The new living guy or gal isn't the dead one. There is no reason why they should be similar so don't be surprised if they are totally different. But if you're still scratching your head, here's the secret answer: they are two different people.
3. I try hard to not judge you when you say how hard it is when your husband is away for a couple of days or even a week on business. I used to feel that way too. But when you do say it to me, behind my fixed pupils my eyes are rolling. I actually can't believe I have acclimated myself to the fact that my husband is never coming home.
4. Why oh why couldn't I have had the perspective on life that was gifted to me by my husband's death when he was still alive?
5. Do you know how much I wish that my son, who lost his dad when he was six, would have one or two men in his life who would take a deep interest in him and provide him with the attention and guidance that only a man can give him?
6. I don't know when or if I'll ever stop grieving the loss of my husband. If that makes you uncomfortable, too bad.
7. I wish it weren't so difficult to accept being happy again. Being happy feels a little bit wrong. It's like Happy-Lite.
8. I hate that my husband died and I always will.
9. Please don't ever tell me my husband died for a reason. I happen to be comforted by the idea of randomness, inevitability, and sheer bad luck.
10. There will be more to lose and I will get better at accepting it every time. What kind of improvement plan is that???
5 comments:
oh my! that is perfectly stated!
As a widow, with the whole dating thing, I always say that I made vows "until death do us part." I've held up my end, and then some.
Great post!
I sooooo much like your #2 peeve. I am dating a man that is totally the opposite of how my LH was.
I love this! Hope you are well and looking forward to the trip. Wish you could get to the brewery but it would be the essence of crazy to have to meet in another hemisphere to see each other!
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