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When Abraham Lincoln was born, the average marriage lasted about a dozen years - not because they ended in divorce but because life expectancy was so much shorter.
Today an average couple can be expected to be together for almost 50 years. And yet…
“We were married for 38 years and last year she dropped dead on the way to work. I keep putting my feet down but I can’t find the floor. ”
“I was 62 years old and we’d been married for forty-one years. Then he said he needed new challenges and just walked out. ”
Whether by death or divorce, too many sixty-plus folks are forced to find an elusive single blessedness. Yet single living is no easy road to travel when such a short time before it was a journey made by two
How can it be handled? Well, first…don’t be ashamed to grieve.
Accept the fact it is normal and could last for as short a time as six months or as long as four years.
Therefore, put Disraeli’s words in your head and heart and see if they will stick, “Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief is the blunder of a lifetime. ”
What to do?
Find a comfortable chair and make it a habit to sit there at least once a day and read and uplifting story of someone who suffered and raised themselves above it. The bookstore or library is full of such stories but they won’t help you if ou don’t read some of them.
Go out the front door rather than hide behind it.
Seek out new single friends if before this you have thought only in terms of couples, If it is a divorce and old friends were friends of both of you, caught in the middle some may feel uncomfortable and take the easy way out and ignore both of you. Don’t hold it against them or inside of you. Seek out new single friends. There; I said it again…but I did so because it is part of a solution.
Beware! The recovery process can make you forget the old truism, “Feed the pain. Add the fat. ” So don’t eat your way into a health problem by trying to eat your way out of another one.
Rain may bring rainbows but, yes, it also brings rain. We all just have to learn to live with the one while looking for the other.
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(THREE RECENT THOUGHT PIECES ON WYRICK’S WRITING’S “Wisdom is” Who Wins if You Do Nothing but Battle Life?” “A Journey Through Grief”
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PREPARATION IS A KINDNESS
An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of pain.
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