Six Months of Surviving Young Widowhood

Six months.

Six months of a different life.  A life without you in it.  I never thought I would have to say those words.  We were just ordinary people living an everyday life when the absolute unthinkable happened.

I never thought things would happen at such an accelerated pace. That you would be here & gone before I even had time to come up for air.

I'm slowly finding my way in this new life without you. I miss you a lot more these days when so many new & exciting things are happening. Something new in my life will happen & I'll think to myself, "I can't wait to tell James about this!" or "When James comes home, we're going to have to do this." Then I remember it's just me & you're not here anymore.

It's the weirdest thing knowing you're not here & not knowing you're not here. My mind is so ingrained in my old life that my thoughts sometimes can't catch up to my new reality.

There was no one quite like you & I will probably never come close to meeting someone like you again in this lifetime.

I will never forget walking into the hospital room a few days before you passed. At this point, you barely recognized me. You looked right at me & gave me this flirty wave. You would have chosen me every time, even when you didn't know me.

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