They had seemed very right together. She thought this was a forever thing. Sure, they had gotten together so quickly after his wife died, but they had all known one another. It was not like they started out as strangers and they weren’t kids.
He had been restless for several years, but what had made him decide he could not be with her any longer? Now settling in to the new community without him—moving alone into the winter home he had picked out for them—her heart still had so many questions.
The stories of life began to bubble up as she met her new neighbors. One particular couple had come together after he had been on the wild side for seven years following the death of his wife. He said it was like he had so much grief he could not deal with it in a conventional way. His wife had died with pancreatic cancer.
Her heart did not miss the deeply meaningful coincidences: Her former partner’s wife had also died with pancreatic cancer, and that had been seven years ago.
It was as though the Universe was helping her know she had not done anything wrong: This was his grief journey….
“Sometimes you learn more about someone at the end of a relationship than at the beginning.” ~ Anonymous