if your s/o died, can you move on and love someone else?

i haven't even met mine lawrd   reply

this is a question that only those who've actually lost their s/o can answer   reply

I think I could. My grandmother lost her second husband who she still misses. She fortunately met her current husband a year later in a grief counseling group thing. Both lost their spouses and both speak of them fondly.   reply

this is kinda of a hard question. It all depends on the person I think. Grief is a hard thing to go through and especially if it’s someone you love and have built a life with, but sometimes the grief becomes easier after years. For example, My Dad passed away when I was little, and it took years for my mom to be able to move on and open her arms ......   reply

If I genuinely loved them with my whole heart and life I couldn't move on and probably wouldn't see a reason to either. Why are you scared of your boyfriend being in an accident?   reply

i've been with my spouse for almost 20 years. we have kids. our entire lives are tangled together. obviously if i lost them i'd be beyond devastated, and i don't think i'd recover. for obvious reasons yes, but also for reasons you wouldn't think. we're getting older. neither of us are in good health to begin with. so we've had this conversation. ou......   reply

People who havent gone through this traumatizing event and through its grief can only hypothetically answer (answers which will probably be more complex in case anything actually happens). And there is no right or wrong answer whether it comes from others or from you. If something like this ever happens in your life, which i sincerely hope it will ......   reply

Even loving someone that level once is exhausting, so much effort and requires being rlly vulnerable with each other. I don't think I could manage to go through getting to know someone all over again. And I wouldn't move on either- I dont even move on from friendship breakups so I wouldn't bother. Even now I don't feel like finding somebody and am......   reply

this is way too deep for mgg   2 reply