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My longterm boyfriend died last year. Is it too soon to date someone new? | Ask Annalisa Barbieri

Only you can know when you are ready, but a year is not long to process grief, and you seem to have doubts about this man My longterm boyfriend died of…

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The Guardian reports: Only you can know when you are ready, but a year is not long to process grief, and you seem to have doubts about this man My longterm boyfriend died of cancer last year.

We’d been together for 16 years, since I was 21 and he was 23. I had given birth to our only child three weeks before his diagnosis.

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My son was just shy of 10 months old when his dad died, and he’s now turned two. (The Guardian)

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