The wife is still in full depression. The Husband has been deliberately keeping himself busy and is doing pretty well. His sister is about to die from pancreatic cancer, so I'm housesitting their cat while they're gone.
X what I've learned is, ythe older you get the more you lose. You wear those losses like a cloak sometimes, or they can be wings which can carry you to a better place.
I know. Sometimes I wonder "why bother" then I watch a youtube video of my grandaughter playing flute in a funk band in college and I forget all about being sad.
Yes, I'm losing a lot of people in my neighborhood and it's killing me, because with them goes the traditional Portuguese way of life and the change is drastic.