#remarriage

#remarriage

I hovered over the dropdown menu before clicking "widowed." I realized that next year I would be clicking "married." Though I will consider myself both "married" and "widowed" after my coming wedding, the binaries that govern paperwork will not honor this joint identity, erasing a title that I have come to embrace in the past four years since my husband's death.

Carolyn has not previously been married, Massie posted on X. I have four adult children, who are all married to wonderful people, and three grandchildren from my blessed 31 year marriage to Rhonda who I still miss every day. Massie said he's known Moffa for more than a decade and that she'd met his first wife on the couple's Kentucky farm. That's where he and his new bride will reside when they're not in Washington D.C.

The year was 2014. I (Assael) was a young, exhausted father of two small kids and a couples therapist, married just three years. One night I was reading Mating in Captivity by psychotherapist Esther Perel when I came across a line that stopped me cold: "Most people are going to have two pr three marriages or committed relationships in their adult life. Some of us will h ave them with the same person." That sentence puzzled me, haunted me, and eventually inspired me.

I am a 44-year-old man, with a seven-year-old son. His mother and I are divorced, and I moved out when he was three. We share custody; he is with me three days/nights a week including part of the weekend. He is doing well at school and has varied interests. He is a very happy child and the most precious thing to me.