Hoova1202004

I literally was in tears hearing of Jimmy’s passing. His music helped me during my darkest time in life after my wife passed away. After she died I went from Louisiana to Tennessee back to Louisiana. Turned right around to go Texas and finally back to Louisiana. He is all I listened to during the drives. There were many nights, in the beginning that his music was all I had to keep me somewhat sane. RIP and hopefully my wife and Jimmy are singing together in heaven.

The wife and I use to have season tickets to the Pels. My son and have have gone to a few games this year. I think we take care of business against the Thunder. Hopefully we don’t have to play the Lakers in LA for the 8th seed.

I have my wife’s toy poodle. That little dog has been with me every step of the way. She use to aggravate me but I would be lost without her. She is my sleeping buddy now! Lol

I am so freaking sorry man. We have 3 kids together and it is tough at times but they are what keeps me getting up every morning. I miss my wife so much as well. If you ever want to talk please feel free to reach out.

I am sorry for you loss. This is not a club that we want to be apart of. I am not ready to meet anyone at the moment. But I have faith that when the time is right. God will send my children and myself an angel.

I really do appreciate the kind words. I believe the worst days are behind us as well. I actually drove by our old home the other day. I didn’t cry this time, I just smiled and thought of the memories we shared in our home.

I know it’s just words but I am truly sorry. I will keep your wife and yourself in my prayers. There is a video online that I watched it’s called. We don’t “move on” from grief. We move forward with it. We aren’t alone man and you aren’t alone. If you ever want to talk hit me up.

I just finished reading your post. First I am terribly sorry for your loss. I know that words don’t do any justice. I will most definitely say a prayer for you and your family. I lost my wife in June and have often asked why? I will never know the answer to why. I am not sure if you are religious or not but God has helped me tremendously. My advice is to take it one day at a time. In the beginning I often cried out to God and asking him why? I screamed through my tears “God I don’t understand what is going on but I trust you.” You are in the early stages of grief and everyone grieves differently. I know you might not be ready to hear it but I promise you it does get easier. Next week will make 8 months since she passed and I can assure you it feels like yesterday. I will never forget this saying, “ you don’t move on you just move forward” I also joined a grief share group as well and that has helped. If you ever need to talk or anything. Just know that I am here for you and I am sure others are as well. You aren’t alone in this.

I will try to make this a short as possible, I know we all don’t like reading a book on here. As some of y’all may or may not know, my wife passed away earlier this year in June. Her and I have 3 wonder, beautiful kids together. I made the difficult decision to sell our home back in July. I found my wife passed away in our home and it was simply too much pain to continue living there. I was able to sell our home and in August my 3 children and myself, along with my wife’s toy poodle, all moved into a 2 bedroom apartment. It certainly has been an adjustment from living in a 4 bedroom home to an apartment. But, I am happy to say that tomorrow we close on our new home. You see, it’s just not a new home for us but it’s also a new beginning. Tomorrow is the start of a new chapter in our lives and even though my wife may not be here physically, she is indeed here. I am a man of faith and know when God calls me home, I will see her again in Heaven. But I also know life must go on. God wants us to keep living and we as a family will continue to do so. I was told from the beginning, when this happened. That you don’t move on you move forward and that’s what we are doing.I don’t want to get too religious because I know it’s not for everyone but I can assure you God is real and I know 100% we would not have made it this far, if it wasn’t for God. I want to personally thank everyone that prayed for myself and my family. It means more than y’all will ever know. I will NEVER lose hope!Hope isn’t just a feeling hope is a path.I am going to leave with this pray that my good friend sent me this morning. I hope each and everyone of y’all have a Happy New Year.

Dear Heavenly Father, please be with me, I pray, as I move on from the old to the new.The joy, memories, and hardships of the last season of my life are behind me. Help me to leave them there, Lord, and not carry them with me into this new season.Help me to let go of all hurts, anger, and grudges, and see all people as the blessing they are, Your children.
Thank You, Lord, for this opportunity to begin this new adventure with You. In Jesus’ name, I pray. Amen.

I find it comforting to keep everyone posted on what’s going on. Since my wife passed away in June it has been very difficult. Today has been the most emotional I have been since it happened. We are packing up the house and tonight is our last night here. Been going through her things and finding old pictures of us when we first met. We looked like kids, we were so young and full of life. Over 18 years went by in the blink of an eye. I found notes we wrote to each other, her wedding dress. Just so many memories of the kids when they were little. I lost it earlier today while taking down our bed and my son said Dad everything is going to be ok. I am blessed to have many people that care about us in my life but damn this is so hard and I wouldn’t wish this pain on my worst enemy. I forgot to add since she passed away the bedroom lamp has been on. I didn’t want her to be in the dark. Tomorrow night the room will be dark…and that hurts a lot.