12-30-2005, 08:47 PM
ALONE FOR A LITTLE WHILE
When I see other aging couples, I wonder which one culd best make it alone. In the senior center where I go each day I see both men and women who have lost a spouse after 50 years of amrriage to the same person.
By far the women seem to handle it best. The few single men usually are quiet and non attentive.
3 of my older brothers all lost their wives first. Only one remarried... He had a large family and needed the help. His 2nd wife was a good mother to all his children.
The lesson is a wife and mother is gifted to handle a loss better.
Then we should remmeber it is only for a little while