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Why grieving spouses struggle with rebuilding identity after loss

My husband died three years ago and everyone tells me I should be ready to date again but the truth is I have forgotten how to be anything other than half of us.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Deep partnership creates a merged self that must be painstakingly reconstructed when suddenly severed by death.

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