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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My dad did this.  It was horrible for all the grieving children and tore our family apart.  The kind of women who sweep down to try to capture a grieving widow are not the kind of women one wants in their family.

I would say waiting one year when the headstone is placed is most appropriate. Second best would be wait until your kids make it through the firsts of major holidays (bday, Christmas, Mother's Day).

If you can't do that, wait until the family can get the nerve to clean out mom's closet.

At the very least, wait until the kids can get through a full week without crying over the loss of their mom.

If you can't at least do that then you are a jackass.[/quote]

You realize that every single one of your benchmarks is about the children, even if they are adults.  What about the dad, whose life it actually is?  [/quote]

Have you ever lost a parent?  It is profound, even if you are an adult child.  In OP's case, she's asking about someone who has children young enough to need care.  People are obviously free to ignore what PP said was a respectable timeframe for her, but the grieving spouses actions have consequences to the families around them.[/quote]

NP, I have lost a parent and I my sister and I were the ones encouraging our surviving parent to date a bit.  Both are gone now.  
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