I've grown accustomed to his face... [View all]

[tavernier]

I lost my husband of nearly 40 years, four weeks ago today.

Yesterday I was watching My Fair Lady on some channel, and Rex Harrison was singing this song, although with the words Her Face. It was so touching, poignant, that I googled the musical. One of the anecdotes that they mentioned was that he told the producers that every time he sang that song it was to his wife who had passed several years before.

I thought about how true the sentiment was... many years after the first bloom of love and lust, we longtimers settle into a comfortable and close relationship with our spouses. Just the loss of seeing their most beloved faces and voices brings the deepest pain.

I suddenly felt the truth to this piece of music, and although it made me tear up, it was somehow comforting.