What is the world coming to?

[butterfly_81400]

 This has been bothering me for a while now. You see it in your own family. You see it in your friends and on the tv. I see it all over and I still don't understand

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[arrien]

I agree to a point. If Kyle and I ever split up I'd be absolutely devastated and have a hard time believing I'd be able to get married again. I hope that I'd be able to eventually, but not right away. As far as husbands/wives passing away, I've always heard studies that people who are in happy, fullfilling marriages are more likely to get re-married sooner after their SO's pass away. It's supposedly because they had such a great experience being married that they want to be married again. I think it's a sweet concept. It's hard for me to imagine ever being married to anyone but Kyle, but I think he'd want me to be happy.

I understand what you're saying though, and I completely agree that marriage is sacred and should be honored and revered.

[elle_phants]

I agree with what your friend said. It hurt me a lot when my dad started dating so close to my mother's death, but I know it's not because he loved her any less than he said he did. My mom was THE one for him. They were the closest the world would get to ever seeing real soulmates. They had been together for 25 years and would be together forever if they could. They were so deeply in love with each other that it devestated my father when she died. He had always had someone there for him and now he lost his best friend and wife. He was lonely and went searching for a companion. He needed someone to feel that deep, black void in his heart. He found Mona, he tells me she reminds him my mom. He's become his best friend now. He will never stop loving my mother. I know he won't. And I think he cares so much more for Mona because she is accepting of that and knows that she is in his heart along with my mom. She knows she has big shoes to fill and that she'll never replace my mom, but that she's there to make the rest of my dad's life