In Georgia, I have heard of a lot of women who had their husbands killed in a war, when they were just 24-25 years old and they were left alone with 2-3 toddlers and I know a lot of stories when they were proposed by other men but NEVER got married again.
They took care of the children and raised the children but never married. I can only imagine how difficult it must have been.
I think, this is the type of fierce loyalty that was ingrained to Georgian people because we often had wars and people often lost their loved ones to the wars.
So, it was a woman who was raising a child and she would never marry again, to make sure the survival and all the resources being directed to the children she already had with her deceased husband.
I always felt very sad about this, but this also seems like a cultural thing in Georgia.
Georgian women being loyal to even their dead husbands.
Even long after break up, I had a very difficult time to date someone else, because I felt like I was in some way cheating on a person I loved, even though we broke up.
But I just couldn’t until I made a conscious effort to stop being loyal to something that no longer existed.
Now to imagine, my spouse would die, I honestly can’t imagine ever marrying again.
I don’t know why - I might have seen it like a betrayal to my love of my deceased spouse.
But If I was the one to die earlier, I’d want him to find happiness and find the love after me.
Would you marry again?
Would you want your spouse to marry?
