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I turned to writing after George, my partner of 32 years, died of cancer in April 2013, and I found myself living alone for the first time at age 50.

I needed to know I still existed after a year of being his caregiver, watching him disintegrate, feeling deep in my bones that somehow I was failing him. He was in denial so he thought he was going to recover even as his body abandoned him.

I couldn’t fix his illness, not could I jolt him into reality, nor get him to agree to palliative care, nor to involve his parents who were going to lose their only child. I thought I was crawling out of my skin. Through grief therapy, I found out I had post-traumatic stress disorder.

For 32 years, George and I had eaten dinner together almost every night, the
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Creating A New Life After Loss

In April 2013, when George, my high school sweetheart and partner of 32 years died of cancer, I had to either reinvent myself or else reconcile myself to leading a very lonely life. As a couple, we’d led isolated lives; without him I could go days without talking to another person. When he died, I was fifty and for the first time ever, I was alone.

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Published on March 04, 2023 09:44 Tags: bereavement, dating, grief, loss, memoir, midlife, over50, reinvention, widow
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“Where do you live, where do we live where is our home? Under this tree, over the mountains, and beyond, the sky, a time-rider. Dancing colours! Life was more surrealistic, this short life than death, death was natural, not the other way round.--Mehreen Ahmed, Incandescence.”
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