I Promised My Son Forever—Then Cancer Made Me Count the Months

he says, and his voice breaks. “How can you say that?”

Because it sounds like betrayal.

Because in movies, the grieving spouse stays devoted forever.

Because America loves a tragic love story where the widower never moves on.

But real life isn’t a movie.

Real life is long and lonely.

And I don’t want Mike turning into a shadow of himself just to prove he continue reading …