How easy is it to start a relationship after being bereaved? Three widows tell Sinead Corcoran Dye their stories. ‘When your spouse dies, you don’t automatically feel single’ Janelle Brunton-Rennie, 41, public relations director My husband Kurt and I had met through friends a few times and started working out together at the gym before our relationship blossomed into something more. After a few weeks of training together we both realised there was more to our friendship and we went out on an unofficial date, and he then never left my house.

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