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Why do women cry so much when hubbies die?

Mourner
  • Do women cry at the burial of their husbands that much because of the fear of the unknown?
  • Do some cry because they fear being disowned by their in-laws?
  • Do they cry because of honest love?

The other day we were having a chilled Saturday afternoon drink waiting to catch some football on TV when one of the boys narrated how he had been at a burial a week before and the surprises that he witnessed on the burial day.

 The poor soul had two women in his life. He had an older woman whom he had three children with, but he had since moved out of the then matrimonial house.

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