This project has come from many chats with widows and widowers. I have decided to publish frequently the rants which I have started to indulge in publicly on my personal Facebook page.
WIDOW RANT!!!!
Long overdue rant coming up, you don't have to read it.Conversation today with a couple of widow friends, all of us under 60 and all of us have passed the four year mark now.
We all have others telling us how to live, who we can have as friends and lovers and what we should be doing with our lives. I am about to blow this crap right out of the water.
Just because our husbands have died it gives no one, family, friend or anyone else, the right to dictate how we live and who is part of our lives. Too many people feel that just because we are no longer married it gives them the automatic and paternalistic right to decide for us.
1.You don't have the right to decide where I will live
2. I do not give you the right to decide if I will stay single, remarry or take a lover
3. You do not have the right to inflict your life decisions on me
4. You do not have the right to decide who my friends are
5. No one has the right to dictate another's path through life
We will live the way that suits us, our children and our code of ethics.
If you don't like those decisions then you know where the door is, we don't need you in our lives.
Thanks for reading!
