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re: How much time is appropriate to wait to start dating again after a spouse dies?

Posted on 3/26/26 at 10:27 pm to
Posted by LSUFanHouston
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Member since Jul 2009
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Posted on 3/26/26 at 10:27 pm to
My grandfather has had a best friend since college… he is 88 years old now. So 70 years of friendship. My grandma and his friend’s wife died within 3 months of each other, both after long illnesses.

Within a year, the friend was dating a lady, and they have been together for 7 years, but never married. My grandfather has had no desire whatsoever to date anyone else.

Meanwhile I have a friend whose wife dropped dead of a blood clot at 29… my friend did not date anyone for 5 years, but eventually did and eventually remarried.
Posted by Barstools
Atlanta
Member since Jan 2016
11835 posts
Posted on 3/26/26 at 10:29 pm to
If she's feels it's appropriate right after you die, she never loved you
Posted by Uga Alum
Member since Jul 2022
6529 posts
Posted on 3/26/26 at 10:30 pm to
That’s kind of pathetic. Go to sleep.
Posted by tigerpimpbot
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Member since Nov 2011
69087 posts
Posted on 3/26/26 at 10:31 pm to
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My opinion is you have to wait at least a year.


If they’re old, let them do whatever whenever. The other one is dead and won’t know the better.
Posted by LemmyLives
Texas
Member since Mar 2019
16107 posts
Posted on 3/26/26 at 10:32 pm to
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If she's feels it's appropriate right after you die, she never loved you

Nothing shows you love someone at an advanced age by watching them suffer alone from heaven.
Posted by baldona
Florida
Member since Feb 2016
24206 posts
Posted on 3/26/26 at 10:38 pm to
Some of it depends on “dating” also. I would suggest 2 weeks is too short to create a tinder profile.

If you meet someone randomly at the grocery store, at the pickle ball tournament, etc. is that really wrong if it’s been a couple weeks only?

I know an elderly gentlemen that shipped out to the military and lost touch with his HS sweet heart. He was married almost 50 years to someone else, she passed from cancer. At her funeral, the HS sweetheart stopped by and one thing led to another. I don’t know details or timelines. But I’m going to assume it wasn’t a year.

Seems kinda fricked up, idk. But is that really that wrong?
Posted by LemmyLives
Texas
Member since Mar 2019
16107 posts
Posted on 3/26/26 at 10:38 pm to
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That’s kind of pathetic. Go to sleep.

UGA fans are a unique kind of retard here.
Posted by Jim Rockford
Member since May 2011
105300 posts
Posted on 3/26/26 at 10:39 pm to
When one of my cousins was around 12, his grandfather died. Not my grandfather, other side of the family. After a while, an older gentleman asked my cousin's grandmother out. My cousin found out about it, pitched an absolute fit and his grandmother called it off. I thought that was really sad.
This post was edited on 3/26/26 at 10:48 pm
Posted by LemmyLives
Texas
Member since Mar 2019
16107 posts
Posted on 3/26/26 at 10:42 pm to
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grandmother called it off. I thought that's was really sad.

FFS, let old people be happy. They die faster if they're alone. Who wants that? OP.
Posted by Everyday Is Saturday
Member since Dec 2025
1558 posts
Posted on 3/26/26 at 10:47 pm to
That’s how many spouses die in first place - spouse was already dating while dead spouse was alive.

Saw this on Jerry Springer.
This post was edited on 3/26/26 at 10:48 pm
Posted by awestruck
Member since Jan 2015
14603 posts
Posted on 3/26/26 at 10:54 pm to
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my opinion is
like assholes and everyone has one

And without being in their shoes.... I hope you kept your trap shut.

Maybe their marriage was all wine and roses and maybe it was a living hell she's ready to put well behind her. Because it night have been her most tragic day ever or the one's she's been waiting on for years. And without you knowing she may have already had enough grieve to last a lifetime.

You just never know....
Posted by yakster
Member since Mar 2021
4103 posts
Posted on 3/26/26 at 11:06 pm to
Being respectful to a dead person? Their dead. Not gonna get offended
Posted by Kingshakabooboo
Member since Nov 2012
1906 posts
Posted on 3/26/26 at 11:12 pm to
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The woman is likely 60+ years old. And doesn’t want to be alone.


I was thinking the same thing. Likely had nothing to do with sex. She has had a partner and not been alone for 30 years and now she is. Probably just very scary for her being alone and just seeking companionship.
I have been married for 32 years and have come home to my wife virtually every day of those years barring a few business trips. I don’t know how I would be able to handle coming home to an empty house every afternoon. I sure hope I go first. And if my wife is getting dicked down a month later because she is lonely and that’s what she need to keep her mental health then good for her.
Posted by Cracker
in a box
Member since Nov 2009
19269 posts
Posted on 3/26/26 at 11:23 pm to
Once the casket is covered with dirt
Posted by Gorilla Ball
Az via La
Member since Feb 2006
13247 posts
Posted on 3/27/26 at 12:05 am to
Geez
It’s no ones business
Posted by PowerTool
The dark side of the road
Member since Dec 2009
23223 posts
Posted on 3/27/26 at 12:09 am to
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I didn’t call Bluegrass Belle a whore.


Can I use this as my next sig quote?
Posted by Barstools
Atlanta
Member since Jan 2016
11835 posts
Posted on 3/27/26 at 12:09 am to
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Nothing shows you love someone at an advanced age by watching them take it up the arse, on your bed and in your house, from heaven.


Retard logic works both ways...
Posted by LSUDad
Still on the move
Member since May 2004
62536 posts
Posted on 3/27/26 at 12:16 am to
Depends, depends on how many single women are at the funeral.

True life, everyone grieves differently. I have two sister that had husbands die. Looks like both might never get married again.
This post was edited on 3/27/26 at 12:37 am
Posted by TigerBait2008
Boulder,CO
Member since Jun 2008
40491 posts
Posted on 3/27/26 at 12:25 am to
Yall all took the hook? None of this ever happened.
Posted by lsu xman
Member since Oct 2006
16828 posts
Posted on 3/27/26 at 1:46 am to
If she's out dating for money then one day
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