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    Commentary: What I’ve learned about living alone after losing my wife of 42 years

    This year, at the age of 72, I started living alone for the first time in my life. For 42 years before that, I lived with my wife, Diane, who passed away in December. In college and as a young man, I always had roommates. When my wife was diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer, about a year ago, she tried to prepare me for living alone. She taught me how to do the laundry. She showed me where the ...
    by Bruce Wexler, Los Angeles Times Mar 28, 2024 3 minutes
    (Dreamstime/TNS)

    This year, at the age of 72, I started living alone for the first time in my life.

    For 42 years before that, I lived with my wife, Diane, who passed away in December. In college and as a young man, I always had roommates.

    When my wife was diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer, about a year ago, she tried to prepare me for living alone. She taught me how to do the laundry. She showed me

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