My father and his companion have lost their life-long mates to death and they, in the course of their recovery from such trama, attended group support programs where they made this observation:
Men, who while expressing their grief over their lost wives, would consistantly call upon a common phrase in describing their past spouse: "She was the best."
Women likewise had a phrase they uniformly used to describe their late husbands: "He was a good man."
My father and his companion found this to be so universally true of grieving widowers and widows that they have me wondering why this might be so...
If you are willing to accept that my farher's observation was at least partially accurate and that the above can be trusted, do you
think that it points out a unique difference in the way that men and women love their mates, and if so ... what is that difference?
2006-08-03
11:14:47
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