If your SO died, how deep would be the personal crisis?

Do you know who you are without your spouse? Your identity is tied to it

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I’d be devastated. It’s not that my identity is tied to him, so much as my happiness in ways that would be impossible alone no matter how much time passed. I’d stick around for my kiddo, but even after the grieving of losing the love of my life, my existence would.. a suffering I would have to learn to live with.