Here are two songs that I should have played to my wife many more times:
Songs For My Wife
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Can Never Say I Love You Enough
Regret I didn't tell her how much I loved her, appreciated all she did, held her in my arms as I kissed her, nuzzled throuh her hair, tell her how beautiful, how smart she was more often than I did.
Cancer took her from me. I begged, pleaded with God to let me take her place. He had a reason and a need for another angel in His Kingdom and I wasn't the one. Soon, I'll hold her in my arms again and tell her all the things I wanted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYj2hex99gY
Hugs Jjoanne
Barbie Jean
Oklahoma born and raised cowgirl
We Can Only Cry
For all the things we should have done, but left it too late, or didn't say enough.
Crying
Our last words were exchanged in a phone conversation while she was at a baby shower.
"I'm having a great time I'll see you when I get home. I love you."
"Okay! I love you too. Bye!"
This coming Sunday marks forty years together as I proposed to her with a song I wrote. She uttered the single most precious word I will ever hear.
"Yes."
Love, Andrea Lena
The moon and the stars . . .
. . . were the gifts you gave. Yes.
I still have my beloved, and of course there are plenty of times when we take each other’s simple presence for granted . . . or worse, get on each others’ nerves, because we are different people and that happens. But I would be quite lost without her. Thank you, dear friend, for the reminder.
— Emma
Play Them For Her
And, of course, there are many others. Let her know you love her.
Bailey Summers wrote a line in……..
Jem that was one of the best expressions of love I have ever read. A widowed husband tells his daughter that he would give anything just to be able to have another argument with his dead wife.
Yes, my spouse annoys me more than I can express. Yes, she lets me know nearly every day in ways so subtle she probably doesn’t even realize she is doing it that she doesn’t want to be seen with me. But I still love her.
We are not speaking to each other right now, and I am extremely angry at her - but I couldn’t bear the thought of not having her here with me.
D. Eden
“Hier stehe ich; ich kann nicht anders. Gott helfe mir.”
Dum Vivimus, Vivamus
I Empathize
With that, Dallas. Married life is not always a rose garden, but if I could have her nag me one more time, I would love it.
I love Roberta Flack
I liked that song when it first came out. Did you accidentally link the same video twice?
I think Ellen liked it too.
Gillian Cairns
Singing helps us communicate at an emotional level.
I've hinted at some of this in my story Hereby Highly, but I'll add a bit more information.
My wife Ellen died 3 years ago after a stroke. There was a long delay bringing her home and she had lost much of her speaking ability. After a few weeks of various therapies including speech, she was able to say "I love you" once. For speech therapy, I made a play list with lyrics for us to sing along with. I gave her a maraca to shake in rhythm. But she had trouble with a wound healing and we had to switch to hospice care which didn't include those therapies.
But after 41 years living with a person, you know what they like and don't like. So I made a couple more singalong playlists to entertain her and that I could sing along with. In the end when she died, I went into the room alone, put on the therapy list and sang the first 2 or 3 songs to her.
I made a memorial video for her and picked four songs that sort of encompass our life together.
The first is from Grease, which was released the year that we met.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e__Pp4FxsjU
The second is from The King and I. Her little sister had performed in a local theatre production as one of the Siamese children.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MNANgFCYpk
The third is by Home Free, which she really loved to hear (along with Pentatonix).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9Xb1WhmYqs
And the fourth is Al Green's cover of For the Good Times.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2IpoTKnDPw
After a year and a half on estradiol, that one really gets to me.
And thanks to everyone else who commented on here.
Gillian Cairns
You Made Me Cry
Especially with the Al Green song. Obviously I empathize with your loss. Losing your beloved brings no comfort.
Thanks for sharing Gillian.