Always so inspiring! I love your story and am so blessed to have been around you two long enough to see what I, myself am looking for exist and so powerfully thrive💕
Karen, thank you for this! I really needed your words and perspective today to help encourage me on my journey of opening my heart more and keeping it open, whatever may come.
This will be a reread for me. I love the Rumi quote. And yours, “But, time is not the measure of love.”
Your thoughts really really touched me today. I cried a little coming to the end, in a good way so thank you🥰
Thanks for sharing your thoughts Alana! I don’t know you well, but I know you well enough to know how incredibly strong you are. Which means you can enjoy the deepest love in all the ways so - keep opening! 😍
My husband and I were married for 62 years before he died. We met when we were 12 - he was the boy down the street - and got married when we were 19. I don't think we blocked our love for each other. Yet having that love for so long and then not having him here is more painful than I could have imagined. Yet, as I write that - my love for him remains strong.
What a love story!! And I can only imagine the loss it must feel like for him to not be there. I also love your words recognizing that love and pain can coexist. And always do. It’s a constant practice to keep our focus on the feelings we want to expand. I just realized you have a publication here on Substack. I just subscribed and look forward to reading. 🤗
Hi Karen, Thanks so much for subscribing to the newsletter. It was born out of my struggle with his dementia and then death. The articles were and remain instrumental to the healing. It took a long time for me to understand that love and pain can coexist. I truly enjoy reading your posts.
The older my husband and I get the more I find that love and pain definitely exist. Change happens and it can be a challenge!! But I think love and time conquers all. Thanks for your beautiful story.
Always so inspiring! I love your story and am so blessed to have been around you two long enough to see what I, myself am looking for exist and so powerfully thrive💕
Thank you Monika! Anything you want is yours! 😍 You make magic happen!
Karen, thank you for this! I really needed your words and perspective today to help encourage me on my journey of opening my heart more and keeping it open, whatever may come.
This will be a reread for me. I love the Rumi quote. And yours, “But, time is not the measure of love.”
Your thoughts really really touched me today. I cried a little coming to the end, in a good way so thank you🥰
Thanks for sharing your thoughts Alana! I don’t know you well, but I know you well enough to know how incredibly strong you are. Which means you can enjoy the deepest love in all the ways so - keep opening! 😍
My husband and I were married for 62 years before he died. We met when we were 12 - he was the boy down the street - and got married when we were 19. I don't think we blocked our love for each other. Yet having that love for so long and then not having him here is more painful than I could have imagined. Yet, as I write that - my love for him remains strong.
What a love story!! And I can only imagine the loss it must feel like for him to not be there. I also love your words recognizing that love and pain can coexist. And always do. It’s a constant practice to keep our focus on the feelings we want to expand. I just realized you have a publication here on Substack. I just subscribed and look forward to reading. 🤗
Hi Karen, Thanks so much for subscribing to the newsletter. It was born out of my struggle with his dementia and then death. The articles were and remain instrumental to the healing. It took a long time for me to understand that love and pain can coexist. I truly enjoy reading your posts.
The older my husband and I get the more I find that love and pain definitely exist. Change happens and it can be a challenge!! But I think love and time conquers all. Thanks for your beautiful story.