If you get married and stay together at some point one of you will become widowed. I don't believe many people even contemplate that when they start their lives together. Or if you do you figure you will be at the end of your life. Seeing my tax status from Revenue Canada change to widow absolutely gutted me. I sat in my jeep at work in the parking lot. Raging how dare they say I'm a widow. Like it's over, they have no right. It took me years to even use the word let alone call myself one. Even now 7 years later I say I was widowed, its the action of what happened to me not who I am. I was in the prime of my life. We have 3 daughters who were all in school still , all the plans we made. A Widow ? That means it's over. It's far from over. The pain and the joy. Life is far from over. Til death do us part. Even in death you shall have my hand. That's what our wedding invitations said. So no not until death do we part. My forever person, the man that had more to do with who I am, who I had become is gone. Life sucks sometimes.
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