{"id":5750,"date":"2025-07-26T22:46:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T22:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/?p=5750"},"modified":"2025-07-26T22:46:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T22:46:05","slug":"at-60-i-found-love-once-more-nearly-a-decade-after-losing-my-husband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/?p=5750","title":{"rendered":"At 60, I found love once more, nearly a decade after losing my husband"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"70\" data-end=\"233\">At 60, nearly ten years after losing my husband Richard, I found love again. During our wedding, Richard\u2019s brother David suddenly stood up and shouted, \u201cI object!\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"235\" data-end=\"433\">Richard and I had shared 35 years and raised three children. His death was devastating, and it took me nearly seven years to heal. After nine years, I met Thomas, a widower, and we decided to marry.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"435\" data-end=\"752\">At the ceremony, David accused me of forgetting Richard, saying it was wrong to celebrate while Richard \u201crests in the ground.\u201d My daughter then revealed a slideshow and video showing Richard had a secret family\u2014a woman named Marissa and a daughter, Kara. I had known but kept it private to protect our family\u2019s peace.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"754\" data-end=\"952\">David was shocked and apologized for judging me. Thomas held my hand, and I said yes to moving forward with love. Later, I met Kara, and despite the awkward start, I felt peace rather than betrayal.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"954\" data-end=\"1166\">What I learned is that love is messy and forgiveness is powerful. I don\u2019t regret my past or giving love another chance. Life doesn\u2019t end with age\u2014it just changes, and healing means choosing what to carry forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; At 60, nearly ten years after losing my husband Richard, I found love again. During our wedding, Richard\u2019s brother David suddenly stood up and shouted, \u201cI object!\u201d Richard and I had shared 35 years and raised three children. His death was devastating, and it took me nearly seven years to heal. After nine &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5752,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5750\/revisions\/5752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}