An inspiring memoir of life, love, loss, and new beginnings by the widower of bestselling author and filmmaker Amy Krouse Rosenthal, whose last act of love before her death was setting the stage for her husbandâs life without her in a Modern Love column in the New York Times.
On March 3, 2017, Amy Krouse Rosenthal penned a Modern Love column for the New York Times â""You May Want to Marry My Husband."" It appeared ten days before her death from ovarian cancer. A heartbreaking, wry, brutally honest, and creative play on a personal adâin which a dying wife encouraged her husband to go on and find happiness after her demiseâthe column quickly went viral, reaching more than five million people worldwide.
In My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me, Jason describes what came next, even as he struggled with her loss. Surveying his life before, with, and after Amy, Jason ruminates on love, the pain of watching a loved one suffer, and what it means to healâhow he and their three children, despite their profound sorrow, went on. Jasonâs emotional journey offers insights on dying and death and the excruciating pain of losing a soulmate, and illuminates the lessons he learned.
As he reflects on Amyâs gift to himâa fresh start to fill his empty space with a new storyâJason describes how he continues to honor Amyâs life and her last wish, and how he seeks to appreciate every day and live in the moment while trying to help others coping with loss. My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me is the poignant, unreserved, and inspiring story of a great love, the aftermath of a marriage ended too soon, and how a surviving partner eventually found a new perspective on lifeâs joys in the wake of tremendous loss.