“The little, simple things, I cannot make excuses for. He’s not at work, not out with his brothers watching the games. He’s. Not. Here. And that’s the hard truth those small things bring.”
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“The little, simple things, I cannot make excuses for. He’s not at work, not out with his brothers watching the games. He’s. Not. Here. And that’s the hard truth those small things bring.”
“The scene out my window keeps passing and I can’t stop it. Every day, I’m sitting backwards on a moving train.”
“It makes me angry. To have to go on each day as though my life were normal. To have to put on an act, when all I want to do is talk about Joe.”
“We aren’t tending a wound that will go away over time. As we grow, our grief grows with us.”
“Death didn’t make me love him differently or less, in fact, it may make me love him even just a little bit more.”
“Losing Joe didn’t just alter the reality of my marriage, it affected every aspect of my life. Every single one.”
“Trust that this strong survivor of a woman knows the right person, the right time, the right place – even if it doesn’t make any sense to you. Trust that she knows when she’s ready and when it’s time to love again. Support her.”
“The truth is, there’s no agenda for loss. No timeframe for recovery. No amount of seasons that will make it different.”
“We used to proudly say we knew each other for over half of our lives. But as mine continues to go on, I live with pervasive thoughts of knowing it was only ever half for her.”
“Every morning, I wake up, glance at the box of your clothes next to my bed, and say to myself, ‘Today is the day.’ But I can’t.”