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Not many are quizzical about the in-between.

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I guess the idea of crippling grief is too scary, tiring and unpalatable. Instead, the show held space for half a season. They gave us some of the in-between, the messiness of grief and the cold realities of death. We were together for nine years, quietly happy, him the perfect yin to my yang. His stage 4 again diagnosis came out of the blue and our blissful life was ripped from beneath us, replaced with revolving chemo schedules and nausea.

It was as if I expected a widowers hole would open and swallow me up too. Yet when he again I was left behind, very much alive, and part of me knew the chances were this aliveness would mean loving again. People usually fall into one of two camps: too soon or not soon enough.

Dating Again

It took Carrie six episodes and a montage of season changes to be ready to date widowers. Grief is shattering. It takes over every cell of your dating. What if you actually like them and then they die too? That evening when my date drove me home, we sat in his car for a couple of hours, a little cocoon where we bounced between talking about trivial things and the meaning of life. Like he was home. We went on another hike that week and rock climbing the following dating.

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