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How to pursue new love after spousal death

I am a widow and when I think about being intimate with someone else it feels like betraying my husband even though he has been gone for three years.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Loyalty to the deceased can prevent authentic engagement with the living, trapping survivors between past love and future possibility.

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