Bereavement

Thank you for sharing.

I wish I didn't know about your transition from married to widowed, but I do.

The best advice I ever got was to look at my deep loss as a deep space in my life that I could fill with memories and gratitude, and more importantly, as a place for new growth by myself in the ways I could expand my interests and talents that would honor the values shared by us both.

Gradually, the nettlesome, though good-hearted, attentions of others faded to where I could basically and politely ignore them without hurting their feelings as I explored the new landscape of my changed life, while dealing with the details that follow such a transition.

Best thoughts to you on your unwelcome, but potentially positive span of our own journey.