If you lost your SO, would you be able to pay off all expenses and still be able to live as you are

[SharonAnn]

34. I found when I lost my SO two years ago. The Term Life helped bridge things, which

it was intended to do, but income went way down and costs went way up. Lost his income and have to pay for many services he provided (fixing things, lawn and car maintenance, computer and other technology maintenance, etc.). More demands on my time with no one to share household tasks (I used to do the cooking, grocery shopping, and laundry and he wrote the checks for bills and balanced the accounts).

I'm a professional myself, but still.

I'm capable of doing nearly all these things, but it consumes a lot more of my time just to keep things running and leaves me much less available time for other things.

All this was not a surprise, the surprise was the magnitude of difference in my life. There are still only 24 hours in a day and now there's just me to tend to things.

All this, of course, is just the task-based stuff. The overwhelming grief and learning to deal with things day by day while you slog through the grief is another whole set of things.