Ask Amy: Widower ponders the ticktock of moving on
Your thoughts?
– Unsure
Dear Unsure: I can take a stab at this and guess that you are torn about your choice not to attend this wedding because – as we are all emerging from the isolation caused by the pandemic – you don’t really want to slog through a wedding full of strangers by yourself, and yet you believe that after a year of isolation, you should want to do it.
Go easy on yourself.
You may never get to the point where you want to attend a wedding by yourself where you don’t really know anyone, but these – and other – social occasions will seem less overwhelming as time goes on.
Dear Amy: I’ve just read your response to “No Wedding Bells for Me,” and can’t understand your vehement dislike for the idea of a groom singing his wife down the aisle at their wedding.
As a professional singer (and as a romantic), your statement to “never marry a guy who wants to sing you down the aisle” seems very extreme to me.
There are some who would find this to be a beautiful thing – me among them.
Not marrying someone because they want to sing, as opposed to “because they are a jerk” are two very different things.
Your extreme opinion in your response really rings shallow. If it’s a good match, nothing else matters.
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