Completing grief, after death or divorce, can take years, and then lead to the reawakening of new love and refreshed hope. A dirge can become a wedding song.
I’ve witnessed great love and wonderful joy at second, third weddings,and seen families embrace new members in ways they never thought possible. I’ve seen men and women, having been pulled through the ringer of a cruel divorce, or the trauma of prolonged illness and then death of a beloved spouse, learn to laugh, trust, dance, and really love again.
Life often offers multiple chances at love, and the best candidates, for second marriages, may well be those who were happily married but who lost a spouse to illness, and those who have emerged from divorce without lingering bitterness.
Yes, life is full of hope for those with the eyes to find it, and the courage to embrace it. May those who embark on new love, having emerged from the ashes of death or divorce, find joy and fulfillment in very large, overflowing doses.
July 17, 2006 at 9:05 pm
It is sometimes hard to beleive that this could be true, but these are the words that give us all hope.
March 27, 2007 at 1:36 pm
I believe that you have to move on and seek for hapiness, but it is really hard to imagine your dad get married after your mother passed away 6 months ago (they were married for 40 years). Probably it is more difficult when you learned that you have to grief for a year.
I support the fact that he can be with another woman by i think he should wait a year for marriage.
October 28, 2007 at 8:51 pm
Throw out those old stuffy rules……When you had a
good marriage you want to be with someone…..yes I
waited a year to get married again….
I think you need to think and that takes time – for some.
Move on – use the rest of your life to the fullest..
Dad remarries-accept this and move on……..
Live your life and try to be happy for dad.
Live on and be strong.