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Speaker 3: My god, this is the place for you. Welcome back

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Speaker 3: to our Bestie Advice segment. This is one of our

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Speaker 3: favorite times of the week, really is. We have some

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Speaker 3: very interesting bestie advice questions coming in this week, and

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Speaker 3: we wanted to share something with you that was a

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Speaker 3: little bit of a sad one. So really sad ashi,

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Speaker 1: ALRIGHTI hi, girls, I lost my husband of thirty years

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three. First of all, oh my gosh,

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Speaker 1: I'm so sorry. I'm now forty nine. I guess naivete

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Speaker 1: made me think this will happen one day, just maybe,

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Speaker 1: when we were both really old. I was not prepared

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Speaker 1: for the loss in the way that it's shown up

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Speaker 1: for me, thinking would just be sadness and tears. I

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Speaker 1: I worked, and I'm I'm still working to avoid my mind.

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Speaker 1: I've been hospitalized for low hemoglobin with no real medical

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Speaker 1: reason why I feel so lonely, Yet I think about

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Speaker 1: the blessing that was my life. My husband was an

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Speaker 1: incredible man, my everything. He's the only human in my

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Speaker 1: life that knew me so intimately like no other human ever.

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Speaker 1: Has he seen me grown as a woman who I

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Speaker 1: am today, and it's all because of him. The life

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Speaker 1: I had today is because of the love, the commitment,

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Speaker 1: the respect, and the care that we have for each

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Speaker 1: other and the future path we were planning together. The

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Speaker 1: moment my husband took his last breath, I felt a

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Speaker 1: deep sense of gratitude for the life that was, for

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Speaker 1: the blessing of being able to share an end of

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Speaker 1: a life event with my human, to say goodbye, to

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Speaker 1: be that pillar of strength for him at a time

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Speaker 1: when he was stripped of all of his dignity and masculinity.

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Speaker 1: I've seen a human strength where his world was literally ending,

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Speaker 1: and he still shows up for me, caring for me

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Speaker 1: and the kids and never complaining. I genuinely feel so

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Speaker 1: lost in my life as I don't know what to

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Speaker 1: do now. I hadn't planned for this life alone. I

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Speaker 1: hadn't given thought as to what I needed. I was

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Speaker 1: a wife and that's all the role that I knew.

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Speaker 2: Well.

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Speaker 1: I'm now widow. I don't know what that looks like

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Speaker 1: with me in it. I feel terrified of the thought

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Speaker 1: that again. I'm not sure who I am without my

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Speaker 1: human How do I find a version of me I've

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Speaker 1: never known?

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Speaker 2: Oh that makes me so emotional, so sad.

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Speaker 1: Oh my goodness.

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Speaker 2: I just I'm just so sorry that this is what

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Speaker 2: you've had to go through.

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Speaker 1: So sorry.

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Speaker 3: Not you can't mentally prepare for any level of graph

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Speaker 3: that comes our way, Like life throws curveballs sometimes and

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Speaker 3: it doesn't make sense, and it feels unfair, and it

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Speaker 3: feels awful and heartbreaking, and it's a lot.

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Speaker 1: It's actually the worst thing all humans have to go

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Speaker 1: through is grief, like any situation, whether it's losing a child,

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Speaker 1: losing a partner like you have, losing our parents, grandparents,

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Speaker 1: like friends.

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Speaker 2: It's awful.

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Speaker 1: He's the hardest part of life. It's the most fucked

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Speaker 1: up thing about life is And the more grief you feel,

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Speaker 1: it's like the more love that you had for them. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I get, Like, how do you exist and keep going

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Speaker 1: what your new life gets to look like. I think

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Speaker 1: They literally always coexisting together. That doesn't ever go away,

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Speaker 1: herself with her community and her loved ones, the more light, pleasure,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just a tough one when it comes to

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 3: It's like, I think, the reason why I feel like

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Speaker 3: is because yes, you might not be at one hundred

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Speaker 2: Five as opposed to a thirty five.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, and in that moment, it's going to

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Speaker 3: so it's also okay too. It's like life is not

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Speaker 3: It's allowing the ebbs and flows of life to kind

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Speaker 3: whether it's through family, whether it's through finding another partner.

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Speaker 3: I think keeping the mindset that there's an abundance of

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Speaker 3: then in those moments, you'll be able to leave in

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Speaker 1: I know for some people they don't like this, but

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Speaker 1: other people they do. Is having people around you that

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Speaker 1: sounds like Steve and I have had this conversation around

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Speaker 1: I hope you do. Oh my gosh. Like I'm not

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Speaker 1: So there's no rush or pressure on that. But also

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Speaker 1: if your heart's craving that, because I can hear that

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I love that. That's so beautiful.

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Speaker 1: Sending you so much love, and really hope you have

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Speaker 1: a lot of stabilizers around you and if not, you

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think something that's really cool and again, not

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Speaker 3: after life changes. From that perspective, I think what's really

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Speaker 3: but then when it was gone, it was kind of like, Okay, cool,

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Speaker 3: it's like, how can we create fullness now because he

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Speaker 3: it's also okay that grief comes along.

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Speaker 2: On that journey too. Sad.

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Speaker 1: So you so so much love and we're here for

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Speaker 1: support as well. We can always pop into our dms

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Speaker 1: and then you'll be cuddle.

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Speaker 2: We love you, Bye bye