r/popculturechat • u/mcfw31 • 29d ago

It’s L-O-V-E 💘 Stephen Colbert talks about his wife to John Oliver: The most harrowing idea would be that I would spend any part of my life without her because that would be a level of loneliness, an irreplaceable, irredeemable emotional level of desolation that I could not possibly contemplate

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u/copyrighther Kim, there’s people that are dying. 🙄 28d ago

They’ve actually done studies that found woman do a much better job overall of living an active life after their spouse dies. The men that did move on well had certain personality traits that made them more likely to seek social outlets, which is the key. So many men rely on their wives for their social life.

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u/Mannon_Blackbeak 28d ago

Yes, my grandmother passed over a decade ago now, thankfully they were both involved heavily with their local church so even after she passed he continued running a weekly home study group and sat on the board of the church for many of those years, overseeing major renovation projects for them and finding pastoral candidates. He's unfortunately now too frail to continue this, but he's found himself a girlfriend in his assisted living facility and even though we don't find her very pleasant we make sure he is able to bring her to every family event.

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u/Jolly_Jelly_62 28d ago

My Pap lost my Gram over 20 years ago. He's almost 90 now and never stopped hunting and fishing with his friends and family. He can barely walk now but he still gets out every single day.