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- About my Loss:
- My husband, Owen, was diagnosed at 23 with brain cancer. He fought it with the best attitude imaginable. He always was joking, dreaming, challenging himself. He enrolled in a super competitive bioengineering Ph.D. program, knowing that his time was most likely limited or precious. He could have just skied every day, or hiked, or done what ever he liked, but he chose to do something that would make a difference and help people. He is the most inspirational person I have ever known and had the privilege to love and share my life with. I am a better person because of Owen and the way he showed me how to live life with such meaning. We were able to conceive a child, which was the happiest day of our life--a happiness that disappeared when Owen's cancer returned when our baby boy was only four weeks old. Owen lost "himself" shortly after that and passed away within a year. I have been in therapy for two years and have made a great deal of progress. Despite the progress, I struggle with depression and hope that I will be able to live a happy life again. I know Owen would want me to move on, to find someone to be a father to our son and I desperately want to find love again and have more children. I hope I can connect with other young people with small children, fighting to move forward and imagine a life with someone new. I know a life of grief and depression is not what my late husband wants for me or our son. SO my question is, how do we really move on? I mean, I want to so badly. But I have no doubt that Owen was my soul-mate and the love-of-my-life. I knew when I was eleven that he was the person I had to be with. He and I because adults together--our identities, having been together since we were just eighteen, were so entwined, that it's odd trying to be with anyone else. I hope I can find some help here.
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