fromSlate Magazine
2 days agoMy Late Husband Left Me With a Very Strange Demand. I'm Not Sure I Can Honor It.
One thing that makes this easy is that she'll almost certainly hear the news from someone else first. If she somehow doesn't, and if she calls and asks to speak to him, that's when you tell her that he died. It was reasonable for your husband to ask you not to reach out to his mom, but to pretend that his phone is acting up or he's napping or just stepped out for the rest of your life is too much.
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