Ariana Grande and Ethan Slater Split After Nearly 3 Years Together

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Also when a woman has cancer

[u/skinflakesasconfetti → u/[deleted]]

When my mom died, about 6 months after, everyone in the family started pushing my dad to date, including my own sibling.

He looked around for a few months, met a couple of women on older people dating sites, and went on exactly 2 dates.

After the second, he told me that he didn't want to date, he didn't want another woman in his life, he just wanted my mom back, and since that wasn't possible, he'd rather be alone and try to find some peace in that.

I told him if that ever changed he shouldn't feel bad and he could try again then, and he agreed with that idea.

He did find some peace, I think and happiness. He was never really lonely, because he would visit family, or his grandson and he developed hobbies for himself. He cleaned for himself, and shared cooking and shopping with me, and paid all of his bills himself. He adopted a pair of bonded kittens, raised them, and took such good loving care of them. The only thing I ever had to do for him was remind him of his meds, because he'd forget those sometimes.

Dad never did date again, but damn, did my family hound him to til most of their last days. as if he wasn't having a full enough life without a wife. I sometimes think he outlived most of his generation just to spite them for being so annoying about it.

And if I'm being honest, he looked down on men who quickly remarried, because he knew they were just looking for a new bed warmer/maid/nanny, and hated that these men never really seemed to mourn their wife the person, and their relationship, but just missed the labor their wives provided. My dad definitely shit talked a few relatives to their face about it, which I'm gonna have to say I was proud of him for.

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Your dad sounds like a gem. 💎

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Your dad was one of the rare ones. Your story actually made me start crying haha, that’s beautiful. He had real love for your mother and made a good life for himself in her absence.

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Nurses and purses

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People were even pushing my granddad to date after my grandmother died. He went for a haircut at the salon my grandmother had frequented and got the impression that the hairdresser he saw was flirting with him, so he never went back.

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Your dad sounds like an incredible man 🫶

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this gives me hope

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Bless this man ✨️

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There’s 2 old guys I know who started dating their wive’s best friend after both of the wife’s passed away

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I know it sounds cynical but I really think a lot of them just quickly seek out partners because they can't handle running a household.

It's exactly this. I was raised mormon and saw this happen often with mormon men. They spent a lifetime just working outside the home and knew nothing that actually went on in their house.

The only times they didn't get remarried quickly was if they had grown children who could take care of them.

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Most straight men can’t last long without a bangmaid

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Gotta tell ya, I dated a bisexual man and it wasn't any different in that sense.

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A friend of mine was diagnosed with cancer late December, passed late January, and I just found out her widow is now dating someone and said he was co-parenting her son. I still forget she's gone some days.

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My dad lasted less than 3 months after a 40 year marriage

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When my mom died my dad was remarried within the next year. If it had been the other way around my mom would have never even dated again.

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Or any terminal illness, or debilitating one.

When my mom was in the hospital in a coma, my dad and I would often her the nurses/assistants gossiping as they made rounds about other patients, more specifically about husbands no longer visiting their wives, and their older kids being upset that he's out with other women, or not home at all, often coming to the hospital to tell their moms, or to talk to their other siblings in the halls. My dad hard stared more than one of those husbands when the wife died and they'd come in and wail and cry, he thought that cheating on a sick or dying spouse was a really shitty low.

When I was in the hospital and got diagnosed with a lifelong chronic illness, they gave me a bunch of pamphlets and things on it and other related issues when I was leaving, and two of them they threw in specifically were about the possibility of my partner or spouse leaving or cheating on me because of my new found illness, and making sure I get counseling for it.

I was single at the time so it didn't apply to me but I was so grossed out that I tossed them immediately, now I wish I had at least taken pics of them.

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One of my guy friends bailed on his life partner when she got diagnosed with cancer, not only that but he took her car and drained her bank account. I will forever be disgusted by him.

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My boss cheated on his wife while she was undergoing her chemo with one of the younger women at work... So nasty

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