Manhattan Resident Reflects on Grief and Moving Out After Wife's Death

My wife died in our Manhattan home. Moving out felt like losing her again.

The author's wife died of cancer. Courtesy of the author My wife died in our Manhattan apartment after 26 years of marriage. I couldn't move because the apartment held the memories of our life together. Four years later, selling it helped me finally imagine a new chapter. My wife of 26 years died on April 3, 2021, in our home on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. She was 51. With my arms wrapped around her and my head lying on her chest, listening to her heart take its last beat, I could fee...