My husband spent his last summer going to every reunion, party, wedding. He was so up!! It was a joy to spend all that fun time with him. Then, in Sept when there was more rain than parties, he left us. Our boys and I call the summer of ‘14 “Dad’s Farewell Tour”. He got to see everyone who was important to him, and he let them think his was a wonderful life. It really was...I wish he’d stuck around for the second act.
So Sorry for your loss.
I’m very sorry to hear about your husband. One who spent many years in the mental health field, I think I worried most about potential suicide in the people we worked with. Objectively, many had so much going for them and to live for, but occasionally just about the time we thought we had them convinced of those facts they would go right ahead and end it all. We would tell ourselves “if they want to do it there’s nothing you can do to stop them”, and while maybe that was a bit to try to make ourselves feel not so bad about what had happened, sadly in many cases it seemed simply the tragic truth.....