Women are supposed to live longer than men, but in my family, it doesn’t usually work that way. Both my grandmothers died before their husbands. My maternal aunt died before her (ex)husband. My mother’s died before my father. Two of my mother’s cousins (that I know of) died before their husbands. And my sister’s died before either of her two (ex)husbands. It is true that my other two aunts outlived their husbands; one outlived two husbands! But is that the exception that proves the rule?
Is this the normal thinking about death after one’s sister, say, has died? I hope so. I hope it will go away, soon.
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