Today I’m starting my new blog Suddenly Single the reason I’m starting this is because I am in fact, Suddenly Single after 46 years of marriage to the love of my life find myself alone again, naturally as the song says, and it really has its twist and turns good and bad ups and downs, and I learn a lot as I go, and I believe that there are a lot of people out there just like myself we’re trying to adjust to this condition that I’m calling Suddenly Single. Now, in fact, I am a very lucky man 46 years of marriage and certainly we had our ups and downs, but as I said, we lived through all the Seasons Of Love our early summer love was hot and heavy, passionate, hold optimism, and maybe naïveté ou know what I think it takes that to jump on borders ship where you really don’t know where it’s going. All you know is the engines revving and it’s Full Steam Ahead. So we fell passionately in love. We had a wonderful honeymoon and then within that year we had our our baby girl, and that my friends was the love of my life. Never had. I had such a riveting experience of love and devotion to another human being it was so pure , it was so different than anything else I had experienced and that moment when we met eyes in the delivery room, I became a father and with that I became far more responsible more focused on the future and together Tess and I built lives our lives together.

Now in the spring of our lives, it was the growing season we had our baby we had our and she was our second child or nine-year-old boy was also the center of our lives as a new dad and it’s a stepdad. I wanted to be the best father that I could be, we join the Methodist Church and along with that we join the Boy Scouts baseball softball and many other activities we bought our first home and somehow I really knew I was married when we bought our first major appliances or washer and dryer. 

Now I’m going to jump right into winter because the kids have grown and moved away. Our daughter graduated college and started her career and essentially my Love and I were left alone but together to try to figure out how that works. I remember our first vacation together we were surrounded with parents and kids who were fussing with each other and escalating into minor threats like if you make one more remark like that you’re going to the car, and we looked at each other and we thought wow this is kind of cool. We are on our own. We can just enjoy the day without having to worry about the kids and it was a very liberating feeling and went on for years. We eventually retired. We moved, and we had a wonderful life going for ourselves , then winter came along. And like real winter, it can be cold, dark and dreary But there are some highlights like Christmas, which is a great time and now we had grandchildren to share that with, and that was Fun and exciting. But the harsh part of winter and the part that brings me again to why I’m doing this Blog is that suddenly my love passed away. It was sudden it was unexpected and yet looking back there were many red flags. She died of cancer under home hospice care hospice cares one of those things I’ll be talking about in this blog because they made all the difference in helping us cross this final destination in our lives together. When our wedding vows said for Richard for poor, we live through that we worked through that together when they said in sickness and health we live through that together, we supported each other we loved each other, and those vows said till death. Do we part to happen I’m at why I say we live through, all the Seasons Of Love.❤️