Death, Sex & Money - A Widow’s Guide To Grieving
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🗓️ 15 July 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
"My therapist told me that it was okay to be mad at him for dying, whether or not it's rational. Because nothing about this is logical or makes sense."
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| 0:00.0 | I mean, I was mad at God. |
| 0:01.9 | I was mad at his heredity. |
| 0:04.5 | I was mad at what I think the night before he died, we went and had Greek. |
| 0:09.2 | So there was probably a lot of like, you know, Tiziki happening. |
| 0:13.4 | I was mad at everything and everybody. |
| 0:15.2 | And it felt so much better just to say, I am angry about this. |
| 0:18.3 | I'm not just sad about it. |
| 0:20.5 | I'm pissed. |
| 0:24.9 | This is death, sex, and money. |
| 0:28.6 | The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot |
| 0:31.9 | and need to talk about more. |
| 0:35.8 | I'm in a sale. |
| 0:44.8 | Thank you. talk about more. I'm Anna Sale. The Christmas after Leslie Gray Streeter's husband died, she bought herself a ring. |
| 0:50.6 | A ruby that's surrounded by diamonds and and it's a ring that I bought. |
| 0:57.0 | Technically, I bought physically, but Scott really bought it with our insurance money, |
| 1:01.7 | and this was like the last gift he was going to give me. |
| 1:04.8 | Scott Zervitz was Leslie's husband. |
| 1:07.1 | He was 44 when he died suddenly from a heart attack five years ago. |
| 1:11.6 | I had lost the stone of my actual engagement ring earlier that year when I was running, and there's so much going on. |
| 1:19.4 | He's like, we have to replace it immediately. |
| 1:21.3 | And I was like, no, no, we just, because we were trying to buy a house maybe in a year, and we had a baby. |
| 1:26.5 | And I was like, it's not important to just wait until Christmas. And year and we had a baby and I was like it's not important |
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