I have been corrected

I used the phrase "move on."
I didn't mean I'm moving on from memories, the person, or the love.
Not erasing the person as if they did not exist.
Not getting rid of pictures, keepsakes, or our rings.
Not forgetting him nor the life we had.
But, that is the key phrase, is it not?-"the life we HAD."

I can't be married to the dead.
I cannot pine for the past and stay stuck there.
I am moving on from the life I had, but I am not planning on acting like it never existed.
Life is moving forward, perhaps that would have been a better way to phrase it.

I understand the correction, because when my husband first died, I would bristle at some phrases people used to speak about grief.
But I have since learned to listen better to the intent and not assume someone means something I would have meant had I uttered it.

So moving forward, but never forgetting the past life I had and the man I loved.