• ikidd@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    My wife’s dying breath, as I put the pillow over her face, was “be happy, which you will be, now that you have more time for cybersecurity”.

    I will miss her, but not enough to interfere with my ability to meet your cybersecurity needs, 24/7.

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    2 days ago

    Every cloud has a silver lining. With the wife dead, you have more time to spend working on cybersecurity instead of shopping for Valentine’s and birthday gifts. Date night is now Patch night.

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    2 days ago

    This is so sad. I’m going to go home right now, give my wife a big hug, and tell her that she is slightly more important to me than corporate cyber security.

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    It is very dystopian.

    But try to remember that people in grief do a lot of weird stuff. Try not to be too hard on this guy.

    He is in a situation where he is both looking for work and grieving. Pretty bad situation.

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        2 days ago

        Again, people do weird shit in grief, and losing a spouse is a special kind of hell.

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          Yep. The longer I have been with my wife, the worse TV shows make me feel when spouses die and one is left all alone.

          I think I would lose myself almost completely for a long time if it happened to me.

          When I was younger I did not understand how people could die of grief after losing a loved one. I do now. I have been with my wife for over 10 years, we have a great bond and share everything. I would survive, but I can only imagine that bond after 30-40 or even 50, 60, 70 years.

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      Or he’s an egocentric that can only think of himself when his wife died

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    What a loser. Embedded systems engineering was my everlasting light and love long before I met my wife, and it shall outlive her frail form for far longer than she shall surely ever know.