Neil and I had had a very contented love life. While I understood their longing, some, I thought, were undoubtedly using sex to escape the pain of bereavement — and I don't blame them. I was all too aware that grief had knocked my confidence, and considered a fleeting liaison a toxic prospect. In the hard years afterwards, she said her children were her only priority and so she shaped her life around them. Linda said she and Neil had had a very contented love life.

Source: Daily Mail September 16, 2020 21:05 UTC