When we started this marriage journey…we wanted the dream. Sitting on the rocking chairs on the front porch watching our grandchildren coming to greet us…both of us. Never did we anticipate that we would lose our partner and have to complete at least part of the journey on our own. The emptiness of the chairs in our life reflected the emptiness in our hearts.
For Jeni, one of the hardest ones to face was the empty pew at church. The empty chair at the table during dinner. The empty recliner in the living room. His favorite seat on the deck. The empty space in my heart that just won’t seem to go away.
For Teresa–the empty place in the bed, the empty side of the couch, the empty truck, the empty dinner chair, the house feeling empty. That hole in my heart that feels ripped open and will never heal.
Neither one of us could envision that this emptiness would ever be filled or replaced…and we were right…and we were wrong. Both of our journeys have led us to a new love and a new place. There is someone in the chair, the pew…but it is a new person and a new journey. It is not the journey we had originally envisioned or planned. We have accepted a new normal and a new destination.
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