“I Had a Hard Time Accepting My Husband’s Death, but I Started Traveling, I Wanted to Open Myself up to New Sentimental Experiences, and It Has Been Possible”: Widowing the 64 and Rebuilding

Montserrat Sagarra widowed at 64 years of age, after her husband died due to pulmonary fibrosis. “He was 69 years old and, unfortunately, at that age he was not expected to have a lung transplant,” she explains. This Barcelona woman says that she was so dislocated with what happened that she had had a hard time absorbing that new reality. However, she gathered all her energy and will and decided to pull forward, reinvent herself, open herself to…