It is the story of everyone's lives and relationships! People die, move, decide to love/care about someone else, get into arguments and never talk to former friends and loved ones again. That's life too. But we don't just get the "good"/easy parts of life to deal with, we have to go through the harder parts.

I "dated"/lived with my husband for 5 years while he got his divorce, knowing completely that he was doing all that so he could marry me. However, I almost started laughing hysterically when he took me to a special, park and proposed to me, reading a poem he'd written! I swear, my very first thought was, "What do I say?" Um, how about "Yes!"? It only got worse on our wedding day when we're standing up there exchanging vows and I made the "mistake" of looking him in the eyes and all that love beaming out of them at me almost made me faint. Hey, got to learn to stay on one's feel, accept, and respond to that just like I'll have to do the same when he dies if he dies before I do and I'm left more intensely alone than I was before I met him.

I'm still a weak responder but I do my best :-) It's a two-sided sword and you are learning to sharpen both sides (or you have an overall dull sword that is worthless).