Life partners

[Yellowbird]

How does one learn to live without their life partner

[Michael Rolls]

As far as I am concerned, it’s not really living but existing. Every day is just one more day without Veronica
Mike

[Flying bomb]

It's difficult, but cultivate lots of interests and hobbies.
Keep in touch with people.
Remain mentally and physically active.


I'm glad that my wife went first as it is I who has to take
the burden of death, not her.

[Maddie Malone]

Rather hard when your disabled , housebound , no friends and neighbours who will only speak when they feel like it .

[Michael Rolls]

Veronica was disabled to the extent that she could not have lived on her own, so had I gone first she would have had to go in a home, which she would have hated
Mike

[Alex22]

Give me down the banks if you like, but sometimes seeing what you thought of a ' life partner' in someone else's arms can be just like a bereavement, only you don't get to bury the partner and enjoy your memories.   

[Michael Rolls]

When my first wife and I divorced I thought it the worst thing that had ever happened to me - she walked out on without any warning and I had no clue she was taking up with someone else. In fact, it was the best thing that ever happened to me. Had we stayed together I would never have met Veronica.
Mike

[Yellowbird]

Feeling so bad tonight, I have tried to cope but, how

[Michael Rolls]

Sadly, it does happen. It is over three and a half years - 194 weeks today to be exact - since I lost
Veronica, and every so often this crushing sense of loss descends upon me. To be honest, I can’t see it ever going away
Mike

[brian phillips]

I took months  to get over the passing of my wife.   Now every day is  just empty as  I  seem to have retreated  into a hermit like  way of life.

[Michael Rolls]

I took months  to get over the passing of my wife.   Now every day is  just empty as  I  seem to have retreated  into a hermit like  way of life.

Sadly, I know the feeling. Those of us who haven’t suffered the loss of a spouse cannot even begin to understand the awful loss involved. It is now I over three years and seven months 


.since my darling died, and every day is as awful as the it preceded it[/size]
Mike

Mike

[Sidewinder1944]

I lost my darling wife in April, I do miss her so and the dark nights and Christmas if not helping me much.

[Michael Rolls]

This time of year, with the long hours of darkness, always makes things worse. At least this year 🤞🤞Veronica’s sister is coming up for Christmas.
Mike

[Flying bomb]

It's now 3 ears now since my wife passed.
They say that time heals but I don't have enough
time left for that to happen unfortunately.

[Michael Rolls]

Sadly, I agree with you. I miss Veronica every much as ever today and next month it will be four years since I lost her. I think 'time heals' for a bereavement is a nonsense, a placebo intended to encourage, and, for me, failing utterly.
Mike