Getting married was the last thing I imagined I would be doing. It just didn’t cross my mind. After all, I was the relic from a long-term relationship that ended very sadly in 2013.
My previous partner, cisfemale, and the love of my life since the late 1980s, had died that year. It was the biggest, most appalling event of my life. It affected me so deeply that I felt horribly lost to myself for over a year, and then spent months slowly getting used to living a solitary life. Grief dominated me every waking hour.