My wife died when I was 59. That's too young to be getting old and alone. I remarried and it's the best thing I could have done. The trick is to meet someone who's TOTALLY different from the 1st one so you aren't comparing them. My 2d is the reverse of my 1st in about every way. Many guys never meet a really great woman but I've been fortunate enough to have married 2 of them.
Agreed! I've been blessed with two as well, Chuck.
I was 32 when my first wife died.
I remarried a couple of years later and moved our family from northwest Indiana (a likely cancer cluster--all of wife's friends died too) and on to Alaska.
The rest is history.
I completely ran out of chits to give when my first wife was dying and my in-laws somehow blamed me for her cancer. When I suggested hospice at the end of her long battle they hated me! It was sad and ugly, I was the only sane one standing, but my heart was broken.
I vowed to leave with the kids and never return and did exactly that.
