Synopsis "SURVIVING Surviving Your Spouse: A (very) personal journey (in English)"
Surviving Surviving Your Spouse is a true story. A story of life, and of love, of bereavement, and of the depth of grief it can bring to any one of us who truly loves their mate. It is the story of a personal journey into the devastation of grief which occurs when we're suddenly thrust from a loving married life into losing a beloved spouse. One with whom we shared everything both large and small, someone with whom we had become one, and without whom we feel as if we are no longer a complete person. Devastation is a graphically descriptive word for the grief which floods our minds, and numbs our souls at the moment we have no choice but to acknowledge the person we love is irrevocably, and forever gone, and can never return. Written from the man's perspective, "Surviving" is the story of one man's loss of his dearly beloved wife, plunging him into the devastation of bereavement, and the dark night of the soul, mind, and even body its grief can bring. But it is also a story of hope, about reconciling to your grief rather than allowing it to destroy you, and of the strength which love can give to us who must continue on alone. And yes, alone is another explicit word for those in grief. Quoting Mr. Grace, "...it is not as painful as the grief of loss, but it gnaws at you like the surf wears rocks into sand". He also stated, "If anyone should take issue with the depths to which I have opened myself, I shall not be embarrassed. I have lived my life, warts and all. I am comfortable with who I am, and what I have achieved in my life. Why should I be embarrassed to tell the world how much I loved her and the grief-pain losing her caused me? Surviving surviving your Spouse is a tragedy which almost half those currently married will experience in their lifetime. If this book helps even a few of them to heal, the effort to write it will have been well worthwhile.
