How Did Your Relationship With Your Husband Change?

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The author's husband was diagnosed with a tumor in his spinal cord seven years ago. She says she tried to shelter him from her own grief during that time. "I realized that my strength at this point was admitting where i was super weak, and where i wanted to be superpresent for my husband"

Susan Messing and Michael McCarthy were a beloved couple in the Chicago comedy scene. Michael passed away from cancer in 2020. As part of Susan’s grieving process, she began to sift through the 50 or so boxes of his writing that he had left behind for her. What followed was a complicated grief.

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