Yes, once you are widowed, you are a widow forever. I feel, no matter if you remarry or not, you are that persons spouse when they leave this world, so that means you will always be a widow. You may remarry and get a new name, but that doesn’t remove the fact that you had a spouse die and therefore you will always be the widow of that person.
I worry that people forget about widows once they remarry. You’ve experienced such joy in marriage that you feel it’s time to experience that joy again with another person. I trust that if you’re reading this and you are a widow, you understand what I’m saying. You didn’t divorce the person who passed away, you didn’t walk out on them, and you don’t forget them simply because they aren’t by your side any longer. That person was your spouse.
Everything changes when you lose your spouse to death. Everything is different after you lose your spouse. Even the most minute things in your life are never the same.
When people divorce and they mention their ex in a conversation, it’s not met with the same feeling or response as it is, if you’ve had a spouse die, and you mention them in a conversation. There will be a hole, forever where that person should be standing next to you. Conversations shift when widows are brave enough to continue talking about their deceased spouse. Widows have lost the one person they thought they could always count on and had complete confidence and sharing their secrets with. And many will never understand that loss until they experience it themselves.
Widowhood is forever.

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