Is it ok for someone to ever date again after his or her love partner has died?

[SuperHeroMan]

I mean what if someone loses a girlfriend or boyfriend or wife or husband because of death? Is it ok for that person to start dating again, and even maybe get married or have children or both with someone else after their girlfriend or boyfriend or wife or husband has died?

[basil67]

Of course it's OK. Of course there is a grieving process, I can't imagine a loved one wanting us to stop living and grieve forever.

 

What has happened to make you ask this question?

[SuperHeroMan]

Of course it's OK. Of course there is a grieving process, I can't imagine a loved one wanting us to stop living and grieve forever.

 

What has happened to make you ask this question?

 

I was just curious, and that's why I asked this question. I never lost a girlfriend or wife to death ever.

[IndigoNight]

I think their should be a respectful period of mourning, but yes it is okay to love again.

 

My MIL passed away, and after several years my FIL remarried. He was miserable being alone. My husband was happy that his father found someone again. My FIL doesn't forget his late wife, and keeps her memory alive with stories and pictures he shares with our children. He deserves to be happy. The tragic loss of his wife at an early age should not condemn him to a life of loneliness.

[todreaminblue]

i feel its a certainty that people need each other....and i would never want any partner i ever had to be alone after i am gone...that thought ...is saddening....i would love to know they would have emotional and physical intimacy until it was their time to go .....to love again...is human......deb

[d0nnivain]

Why wouldn't it be?

 

Look at young military widows / widowers. Are they suppose to spend the rest of their lives alone in mourning?

 

It can be hard to date again after such a loss. It's not like a break up where the other person left you because they no longer liked you. Here the couple was in love & forces beyond their control split them apart. It's tough.

[Timshel]

Have you ever met someone whom you have a conversation with and it stays with you though you never see them again?

 

I met a woman once and we had a conversation, that happens to me often, lol. She starts to tell me about her son, who doctors told her from his birth that he only had days, weeks to live. She is a nurse and her demeanor is so calm. Every day of her son's life, she says, she thinks could be his last. She said, 'nineteen years later, I love him every day; and I know that tomorrow is not promised.'

 

 

Years later my husband passed away and it took me some time to fully understand what that angel woman said to me. She learned to love with an open hand. Love is not finite, the well is never empty and is not taken from anyone to give to another. Love does not die.

 

 

Yes OP, I think that people who lose people they love to death can genuinely love again. It's different, but no more or less.

[preraph]

Sure. You will know when you are ready. Your partner would not want you to be lonely. She's want you to be content.