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Permalink Reply by Tatjana Kowand on March 7, 2012 at 7:25pm

Did you know he was going to leave?

Permalink Reply by Hurting on March 7, 2012 at 7:41pm

No.

Tatjana Kowand said:

Did you know he was going to leave?

Permalink Reply by Kathleen Franck on March 8, 2012 at 1:02am

2 years 10 months without my love. He made me alive. He helped heal me. His outlook on life made me see it is what we make it. We met when I was 18. Nov of 1976. We married August of 79. Our love was everything, a gift from God. Three kids all wonderful, mostly because of him and his influence on myself as well as them. We found out about his colon cancer July of 2008 that next month was our 29th anniversary and my 50th birthday. We were the example to everyone of  how to love. Our children unmarried.....they want what we have. We had 10 months to "get our affairs in order".....though I never once expected him to actually die. It happened! May 2009, I thought our life was "charmed". Nothing could go wrong....I am now alone. I've faced many challenges. My adult kids with me 2 years after Wade left. Then Breast cancer. It's all doable...accept losing Wade. I still feel broken and everyone expects me to go on. I am lonely though no one can know but you precious people who have lost thier other half too....I'm doing it...It is easier than it was but I want my love.....I wish he were here. I am so sorry for all of us here on this site. Carol, RosaMaria, Marcie, Linda, Nancy, Vee, Shannon, Tatjana, Debbie...Sheesh too many in pain! I am so sorry!!! I wish I could hug you each and every one! This is absolutely a tremendous effort and work to get through the pain of this seemingly unsurmountable pain.....it is what life is inevitably comes to. We are called to make an accounting for "OUR" life as individuals....yea...I would rather be a duet, a couple, one of many who make the effort......but I must be who God calls me to be...YIKES...whew...I know!!! Too scary!! It comes down to who I am and what my calling in life is. I know..... I am into it many more months than most here but I am still broken and wish I had my best friend and love. I have had a few dreams but this is not the end....he is waiting as well as our Lord God...Whew.....Many hate to hear that. I'm sorry. I pray for you  who are hurting that God will envelope you with his comfort and love...I am sorry "Hurting" This is "life"...God touch you and ease your troubled heart........HUGS!!!!! It sounds trite but I'm sincere!!!!Kathleen

Permalink Reply by Shannon on March 8, 2012 at 6:00am

Kathleen, thank you for that post. Your right I'm 2.5 months in and the pain is horrific but it is a bit easier than it was the first 2 weeks after he passed. I miss him everyday think about him all the time and I'm glad I do, my fear is in time I'm going to forget that scares me. I have never been alone we started our journey when I was 15 here I am 38 and alone not sure what to think of it. I notice other men looking at me at the store or while I'm at a red light and it makes me angry because my heart only belongs to my husband weather he's here or in heaven. I didn't divorce so in my heart I'm still married. I know he is with God and that helps me to get through the day knowing when I am called home he will be there waiting for me. God allowed him to send me signs and comunicate with me so I know there is something better after this life. Even though most people I tell think I'm crazy but I know what I heard an I refused to let anyone take that away from me.

Many hugs to everyone and may God Bless us in our journeys.

Permalink Reply by Tatjana Kowand on March 8, 2012 at 10:02am

Oh Kathleen....I am truly so sorry for your loss...I didn't have the same amount of time with my Soulmate and forever love, Michael, as you did with Wade...29 wonderful years...but I think we can all relate to the same pain and heartache and incredible loneliness that sits with us every day.

You had to deal with all that and then cancer of your own..there are others here who have also had to travel that road, alone, too (well, without your spouses) and I simply can't imagine how strong you all are! When Michael was diagnosed with mucosal melanoma, we knew it was a terminal diagnosis, but at no time did any doctor tell him how much time he may have because they believed that there might be something out there, some wonder drug, to give him much more time, if not put him into remission, like some of the other patients they had.

Michael and I tried to be as positive as we could but there are simply some days when that is a great challenge and he was a man of such great Faith, but even he felt defeated at times...I know what you mean when you you never expected him to die...Michael died December 21st, 2011...exactly one week after our first anniversary...neither of us ever expected that...we both truly thought we had at the very least a few more months together...we never had the chance to enjoy our anniversary as I was working that day, but more so because his sister chose that day to have a huge fight with him over something so incredibly selfish and ridiculous...it was extremely hurtful an painful to him and from that day, he changed and had no fight left...literally, every few hours he was weaker and less able and I will never forgive her for causing him such heartache and turmoil in his last days as he fought with all he had to stay alive, to make it to Christmas, to see his daughters one last time...why do some people need to make everything about themselves....need to be the center attention, because believe me, Michael would have gladly given up having cancer so she could be just that!!!

I may not write often, but I read everyone's posts and am touched and humbled by them all..I cry for us all, and pray for us all..I know that, like Shannon, after 11 weeks of Michael being gone, it is a little easier some days, but that doesn't mean I don't think about him ALL the time and miss him terribly....I too, just want him back, but I will see him again and until then, I need to go on with things in my life, but that doesn't mean that we forget them or don't love as much as ever...that will never leave any of us...

"Hurting"...please share yourself and your story here with everyone....it will be the beginning of helping to maybe understand the 'why' better, or at the very least, it is a safe place to fall...with all here who care and are more than willing to listen and not ever judge.

Take care of yourselves for me  ((((hugs))))