11/07/2025
We often talk about our loss as women, but our spouses go through the loss also.
They’re the ones holding us while trying to hold themselves together.
The ones hiding their own pain because they think they have to be strong for us.
The ones who grieve in silence, because no one asks how they’re doing.
They carry the same heartbreak, just differently, quieter, deeper, often unseen.
And while we mourn what was lost inside of us,
they mourn what was lost beside us.
Grief doesn’t look the same on them, but it still lives there,
in the way they stare a little longer at baby aisles,
in the way they pull us close at night,
in the way they say nothing when words wouldn’t be enough anyway.
Because they lost a piece of their heart too,
they just don’t always get the space to show it.
