[sopo]

Sounds like you were blessed with a very good marriage, a lot of the way you feel may still be grief, as you’ll never stop missing her and the things you built and did together. I don’t know any aphorisms for that, but it is a feeling to be cherished and one that many, if not most, will never experience.

[Lazamataz]

Sounds like you were blessed with a very good marriage, a lot of the way you feel may still be grief, as you’ll never stop missing her and the things you built and did together.

Excellent point. I was never blessed in that way. Part of it was me; I was incapable of love and true intimacy. Part of it was my partners.

I have more love and intimacy with Angie, my current life partner, but there are some obstacles there, too, that may drive us apart.

[FreeReign]

Sounds like you were blessed with a very good marriage, a lot of the way you feel may still be grief, as you’ll never stop missing her and the things you built and did together. I don’t know any aphorisms for that, but it is a feeling to be cherished and one that many, if not most, will never experience.

Those are wise words and a good way to look at such a loss.

And I'm in that same boat Jim.