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How to find purpose when your life partner dies first

I am seventy-three and my wife of forty-eight years died last year and I do not understand the point of going on without her because we were supposed to die together.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The surviving spouse faces an unexpected solo existence after decades of shared identity.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Mortality as teacher — death as clarifying force?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.