My Wife Of 51 Years Died. Here's What I Learned About Grief That I Never Knew Before.
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My Wife Of 51 Years Died. Here's What I Learned About Grief That I Never Knew Before.

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The author with his late wife, Brenda, on June 24, 2017, their 50th wedding anniversary. Websites that offer “help” for dealing with grief seem to have been put together by people who haven’t experienced a deep personal loss. “Make sure, Richard,” she’d said, “that you’re not just cross-piling sawdust or shoveling smoke.” Keeping busy for the sake of keeping busy is just shoveling smoke. I don’t want to “move on” from all those wonderful things that Brenda and I shared. A longtime friend who lost her husband around the time that I’d lost Brenda told me, “You don’t want to move on with your life.

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When My Husband Died, I Did Something That May Shock And Disturb You. I Hope This Explains Why.
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