12/04/2023

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I lost my wife of 20 years to MND 5 years ago. It certainly wasn’t sudden, but she went in for a procedure to assist me in her feeding, one she was expected to recover from, but there was that pesky one in a hundred chance of fatality and unfortunately she was that one in a hundred. I had taken on the families cooking duties when my wife first became unwell 5 years earlier. For years after she passed I still cooked a meal for her everyday without even realising it. When shopping I was always basing my purchases on cooking for me and my wife as well as my two children. I continued to buy four steaks for my now family of only three until a couple of years later when I realised what I was doing. I also realised at the same time that I didn’t want to be alone anymore.
Hang in there, don’t rush anything, but 5 years later with a new beautiful wife and a beautiful 8 year old step son my kids adore, I can report all is good again.