Years after graduating from Northwestern, alums Annie Kuo and Matthew Becker found an unexpected connection. We were both widowed in recent years, in our 40s, with small children. As we went through the golf course, we talked about our late spouses we were both married in and lost our spouses to heart disease and cancer, respectively , our families and surviving the holiday season.
I mentioned a presentation that I had given the day before for an organization called Wild Grief about the healing power of grieving in nature, and when I got home that night, Matt emailed me.
We struck up a regular correspondence. We found out that we had both attended Northwestern on scholarships. Matt, an Evans Scholar from St. Charles, Ill. We had both relocated with our late spouses to the Seattle area and built lives here. Matt and I became founding members of Club Wid, a local meetup group for widowed people. When I joked that a matchmaking service would probably try to match us, he confessed that he was interested in me. We started dating in February and have been together ever since.
We are grateful that we can both laugh often uncontrollably! She and her daughter live in Shoreline, W ash. Share your Wildcat encounter at letters northwestern. I don't usually respond to stories on the internet, but your story touched me. I met my wife at Northwestern in an organic chemistry lab we were lab partners in We married in and both graduated with bachelor of science in chemical engineering degrees in Our planned family of two became three when the second pregnancy in was twins.
In , my wife entered medical school at the age of 30, and I worked full time and raised our three children as best I could. As my wife received her MD, she was diagnosed with cancer and died in August I was devastated. But like your story, I knew that I had to go forward, especially as a single father of three young children.
