Summary
When her ex-husband died last year, Fiona Duff discovered that, along with a growing number of ex-wives, she had no way of publicly expressing her grief Main photograph Craig Stennett
I still remember the phone call so clearly. It was at I9.30pm on Monday 7 November last year and Lisa, who had married my ex-husband a few hours earlier, called to say that he had just died in her arms. Harry [Thompson] comedy writer and producer had been ill for some time and went into sharp decline that morning, but nothing had prepared me for the overwhelming grief and floods of tears that ensued. We had separated in 1997, but there are some things that time does not diminish.See the full content of this document
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'I Had to in Private to Mourn'
My position as an ex-wife coping with the death of her first husband is not particularly unusual. As my generation which sees around one in three marriages end in divorce grows older, the club will only expand. Dealing with the death of an ex-husband brings with it a strange mix of emotions: for what you had and didn't have and what could have been. There are so many issues to cope with, and just like the fact that every marriage is different, ...
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