Jan. 31, 2026

Two Loves of Your Life with Kym Douglas and Tim Robertson

Two Loves of Your Life with Kym Douglas and Tim Robertson

How many loves do we get in a lifetime? TV Host Kym Douglas and her husband Tim join Jennie Garth to share their love story.

After both losing their spouses of over 30 years, Kym and Tim found a kismet connection in chapter two that will make you believe that you can never give up on love!

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

00:00:15
Speaker 1: Hey, I do Part two. It's one of your hosts, Jenny Garth. And one of the things I love about this podcast is getting to hear people's unique ways they find love. In chapter two, my guest today is living proof that you should never give up on finding love. She's a television host, beauty and lifestyle expert, author, and co host of the podcast God's Table. Hollywood. Please welcome Kim Douglas and her husband Tim Robertson to the pod. Kim, you have lived such a full life of love and loss, and I just want our listeners to get to know sort of your chapter one before we dive into beautiful chapter two. Oh so, can you tell us a little bit about your first marriage?

00:01:06
Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely so.

00:01:08
Speaker 3: I was a news anchor in up state Michigan. I always put the mitten up, and it was up here, way up here. And it was my first interview out of college, and I interviewed an actor much like yourself from a show called.

00:01:25
Speaker 2: The Young and the Restless.

00:01:26
Speaker 3: He played a character named John Abbott, and he was my first interview, and the joke goes, thank god I didn't interview Charles Manson or Chuckie Becker because I would have been married to them, and it was a good interview and blah blah blah. Anyway, we were married very shortly after that interview, and he was a lot older than I was, and at our wedding they were making bets that we would last six months.

00:01:50
Speaker 2: Ended up being.

00:01:51
Speaker 3: Married for thirty seven years and we had one child, Hunter, and he lives in Los Angeles. He's twenty eight. He's in five finance. And I had a beautiful marriage and he was a wonderful husband and a great father. And he passed away almost four years ago of throughout cancer. Yes, yes, I thought my life was over and the best was behind me, and that you get one love in your life and.

00:02:24
Speaker 2: You know, and it just it was. It was hard, it was bad.

00:02:27
Speaker 3: I went through cancer myself and the Ellen Show, as you mentioned, when we first got on, she ended up ending her show. So I had all these endings that happened, and I didn't think there'd be any new beginnings.

00:02:41
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, healing and moving forward seems so unimaginable after a loss like that, like all of those. I'm curious did you and your first husband have conversations about what he wanted for you after he passed like, did he want you to find love again?

00:03:03
Speaker 2: That's really funny.

00:03:04
Speaker 3: And I wonder if Tim went through this too, although his was much faster because Jerry's was a five year battle and they didn't diagnose him correctly till toward.

00:03:15
Speaker 2: The very end. We had a long time to go through, you know, how this was going to be.

00:03:23
Speaker 3: And so what's really interesting, Jenny is that he would say, I don't want anybody else to be with you, you.

00:03:32
Speaker 2: Know, I just want it to have been me. But then he.

00:03:37
Speaker 3: Said, but I don't want to be selfish, and you're so much younger than I am, and you have so much more life left I do. I do want you to to have love again. So it was that, you know, I'm not trying to say like he was so altruistic and was like, go off and find love, But by the same token, he wasn't selfish either and knew that I had a whole life I had me.

00:04:01
Speaker 1: That's nice, Tim, would I would love to hear a little bit more about your chapter one as well. How long were you married to your first wife.

00:04:11
Speaker 4: I was married to my college sweetheart, married forty seven years.

00:04:15
Speaker 2: Wow, and great marriage.

00:04:19
Speaker 4: Yeah, we had wonderful marriage, five children, children and now seventeen grandchildren. Yeah, it's pretty crazy. Yeah, it's it's life around this house.

00:04:32
Speaker 5: It's nuts.

00:04:32
Speaker 4: And you know, Kim had one child. She said she always wanted a bigger family.

00:04:37
Speaker 5: Well she got one sheet one she did, so anyway, we have one. But it was.

00:04:47
Speaker 4: She was a picture of health. She was a very strong athlete, had played in those days. It wasn't d one, it was the nai or whatever they call it. But she played top all sports in college. And she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and was kind of shock. And we went through a blitz of going to everywhere from you know, the best cancer center, the Mnie Anderson and Houston and all these places. But that's one of the cancers that is one of the most deadly. And from the time she was diagnosed to the time she finally died was about three months. We really didn't have a lot of time to sort of figure it all out. And but anyway, we had a great marriage, you know, And I think the the thing that boid both of us said it was strengthened both of us was we had an extraordinary faith. And I think that's one of the things that sort of brought Kim and me together as well.

00:05:51
Speaker 1: How you meet.

00:05:52
Speaker 4: We met because I was doing a business deal with a former associate of mine in Los Angeles and I get this strange text one day. He says, do you mind if I call you about something of personal matter? And I thought, you're my friend, we've been I've known you for twenty some years. You can call me anytime you want to call me up there, schedule a call with me and anyhow, so he causes, you know, I was at this gathering of women last night and picking up my wife and in front of the car, in front of you know, the headlights, my wife walked in front of him with another lady and I just literally heard, like a physical voice say.

00:06:39
Speaker 5: Tim Robertson needs to meet her.

00:06:41
Speaker 4: And I was like what I said, Oh, come on, you know, and you know, I've been around a lot of faced stuff and when people start saying they hear from God, I kind of go, you know, well, that's great.

00:06:54
Speaker 5: For you, but I want to do.

00:06:57
Speaker 4: Well. God tells me that that's so. But anyhow, I had a reason to go to LA because we were doing this business deal and he said, let me arrange a meeting. I said, Okay, I don't know.

00:07:10
Speaker 1: You know, when you say meeting, you mean like a date.

00:07:13
Speaker 4: Well, it was like I said, I don't want to date.

00:07:15
Speaker 3: Wait, but he said wait because he will relate to this. He didn't want to meet a blonde actress.

00:07:21
Speaker 1: Oh goodness, you know how well I can't. I really can't blame you, I know.

00:07:29
Speaker 4: But you know I had Anyhow, we ended up arranging for a lunch meeting. I thought, lunch is safe, you know, coffee even better, but you know.

00:07:40
Speaker 3: Oh, I might have to go because things aren't working out.

00:07:46
Speaker 5: Well.

00:07:46
Speaker 4: There were five of us at this lunch, and uh, the only person I could see was Kim, and I was locked in with her and we we just kind of we connected on multiple levels. And it's funny because the other folks said it was weird.

00:08:03
Speaker 5: You know, It's like we weren't even in the room.

00:08:05
Speaker 1: Oh I love that. I love that. So you guys had instant feelings right away.

00:08:10
Speaker 5: Did well?

00:08:11
Speaker 1: You did too, Kim? I love that.

00:08:13
Speaker 2: Yeah.

00:08:14
Speaker 3: And Jenny, here's a picture. I don't know if you can see it very well. That is our wedding picture.

00:08:19
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, you clean up so nicely.

00:08:23
Speaker 2: Thank you it was no idea where he just came from. But anyway, Yeah.

00:08:29
Speaker 4: So I was supposed to go home the next day, and I ended up extending my stay a few days and Kim was I was able to take her to dinner, and then we actually went to the big show, the Christmas Pageant, which is sort of the City of Angels Christmas concert, and with my son and his three kids. So I brought her right into introducing her to the family right off the bat. Okay, if she can handle this crowd, you know, it'd be great, and she did. They all fell in love with her, and so did I.

00:09:01
Speaker 1: Was there anything that held you back from sort of going that quickly or were you both like just let's go.

00:09:09
Speaker 4: You know when you get a certain age, Yeah, it's like waiting for I don't have any I don't always say yeah. And you get to a point, especially when you've experienced laws, Uh, you realize just how precious every moment is. And and you know, so we met in December.

00:09:31
Speaker 5: We were married in March.

00:09:32
Speaker 1: Yeah, incredible, you guys sound like me and my husband. We did it really fast. To Kim, what did you think of him when you met him? What did you think of him, you know.

00:09:43
Speaker 3: I so Tim is the opposite of me as far as social media, Jenny. So, you know, I was looking up his Instagram. He didn't have one on Facebook, He's not on it. I'm like, who is this guy? Like, you know, everybody we.

00:09:59
Speaker 2: Know is you know? And then I you know, did you are? But I mean you have like two pictures of your grandis. You know that's not being on Facebook.

00:10:11
Speaker 1: I kind of like it.

00:10:12
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, I know I did too secretly. And then I looked him up on the internet. And he's very very u private, which I also love because my life is so in front of the camera. And so the minute I met him, I really did feel a spark. And I don't know how to explain this, but I met him and he exudes integrity and elegance and just a kind of an interior strength that is very hard to find in our town and in our business.

00:11:00
Speaker 1: Did you ever think that you would find love again?

00:11:04
Speaker 2: I sure didn't.

00:11:06
Speaker 4: I had Actually I had a very very unfortunate relationship that was very short lived.

00:11:16
Speaker 3: Oh, let's go into the gens dating before me, Jenny, I really do want to.

00:11:23
Speaker 1: I'm curious.

00:11:24
Speaker 4: Let's talk about it and I thought this, you know, this whole deal.

00:11:29
Speaker 5: Isn't gonna work.

00:11:30
Speaker 1: Yeah, you don't want to date anymore after that.

00:11:33
Speaker 4: No, it's just not gonna work. And uh, you know it wasn't like you know, I you know, I never went to the thing, never regressed. Okay, It's just I just got a dose of crazy, and I thought, I don't need any more crazy.

00:11:54
Speaker 5: You know, I don't need a lot of you know. I'm just I'm good.

00:11:57
Speaker 1: You're done.

00:11:58
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm good. My life is fine. You know.

00:12:00
Speaker 4: I got my grandkids. I got my kids, they got a great life. I got a nice place, you know, you know, all this stuff, and every now and then I go out in the woods and kind of played life. And I don't know how you feel about what. I hope you're not a peed a person, but I do. Ended up I'd like to hunt so and you know, so that's what I do.

00:12:21
Speaker 3: So I'm wearing I'm wearing camouflage, Jenny, and I know this is a podcast and you can't really but we were just out in Pongo, which is an area where, you know, kind of a small area.

00:12:35
Speaker 1: You have head to toe camouflage.

00:12:37
Speaker 2: I'm in head to toe camouflage. And you know me, you know me, you know that I used a grade sport.

00:12:43
Speaker 5: It's it's literally thirty degrees here, it is.

00:12:47
Speaker 2: We were out in me.

00:12:48
Speaker 4: The first time she's ever going with me to do this. Yeah, and she actually had a good time until until the sun went down there it's like, oh.

00:12:56
Speaker 5: Get me out of here.

00:12:58
Speaker 1: You're very brave, very brave.

00:13:02
Speaker 5: You're right.

00:13:03
Speaker 1: So you guys decided to get married after just three months of dating, same exact story as my husband and me. Really yes, but were there people in your lives, like your kids or anyone that was skeptical or did you just get support from everyone?

00:13:20
Speaker 5: My your kids were supported and that was what was really great.

00:13:26
Speaker 4: Yeah, because you know, I've got four, four daughters, and I mean they're first of all, I mean, you know, my my late wife was spectacular and they all loved dearly, and you know they were like, oh, you know, I don't know dad and this kind of stuff. But when they met Cam, they just said, this is she's just fabulous and she makes you happy.

00:13:49
Speaker 5: And they wanted to bring to me happy.

00:13:51
Speaker 2: They did they when they.

00:13:53
Speaker 4: Saw the interaction between the two of us, and so that whole dynamic. Uh, they're like, Dad, this is great. You know, this is just great, and they're all love whether all the grandkids think she's the greatest thing ever.

00:14:06
Speaker 3: Ah, well, I have an only child son, Jenny, And he said, Mom, are you crazy? What were you doing? Are you out of your mind? Like what are you doing?

00:14:19
Speaker 2: You know this man in Virginia, you've only known him, what are you?

00:14:22
Speaker 3: And so he was protective, you know, loving him, protective once he met him, because we did have a whirlwind romance and we would meet in different places and always with chaperones. He'd always bring other couples with us, and before we were married, and you know, Hunter didn't get a chance to meet him. So when he did, that was when he knew for sure. But you know, till the very end he was like, Mom, are you sure?

00:14:50
Speaker 2: Is this you know? And I understand he was protecting.

00:14:54
Speaker 4: Yeahed him to join me on a trip over New Year's and so I called Hunter center. I just want you to know I have nothing but honorable intentions towards your mother, and I hope it's okay with you if.

00:15:08
Speaker 5: She comes and joins me.

00:15:09
Speaker 4: And I think he was a little surprised about that.

00:15:11
Speaker 2: So it really was at Tim.

00:15:15
Speaker 1: Fall, that was a little bit of a role reversal, right. I like that though. So since you've both lost your spouses, which I'm very sorry for you guys, what kind of bond or foundation did that have for your new relationship together.

00:15:36
Speaker 3: I think it was everything because we both came from very strong, loving, solid marriages, so neither of us were willing to settle for anything less. And I did tell Tim, you know, I did go out on a few dates with some girlfriends that would set me up with people in our town. And you know, one of the first red flags would be I would sit down with a man and we would ask, you know, about our backgrounds and he would say, oh, my ex wife she is such a witch. You can't believe, I mean, And right away I knew we didn't have anything in common.

00:16:12
Speaker 1: That's a red flag.

00:16:15
Speaker 4: Yeah. And not to say anything negative about folks who've been divorced, because there are a lot of reasons they do. But true, people who've been divorced have some scars, and they uh and they bring some baggage. And not that we we don't, we don't, but but there's a there's a trust factor that is may not it's just different. And I'm not saying what it's good or bad, but it's different. And I think that there are a lot of data that shows that people who have lost spouses, as opposed to people who have have been been separate.

00:16:51
Speaker 5: Or divorced, are.

00:16:55
Speaker 4: First of all, much more eager to be remarried and uh and much more willing to trust people.

00:17:01
Speaker 5: And that's certainly our case.

00:17:03
Speaker 4: I had a very very happy marriage, and I'd like being married, so he did, and I kind of I hope that maybe God will give me a chance to do it again, and he did.

00:17:16
Speaker 1: So here we are and he did, and he did. A lucky guy you are. How do you How does marriage in chapter two look or feel different than chapter one? I mean, do you have different values or things that are important to you more important to you the second time around?

00:17:34
Speaker 3: Well, you said this to me a couple of times, and he said, and I don't think this is the case. But for both of us, anything that we did do in our first marriage is like, for instance, when you're married twenty seven years or forty seven years, Oh, thirty seven for me, forty seven for him.

00:17:53
Speaker 2: You know, there becomes.

00:17:54
Speaker 5: You're only thirty seven years.

00:17:56
Speaker 2: Thank you?

00:17:57
Speaker 4: Yeah, but Jenny, we're one of those Appalachian places where you get married.

00:18:03
Speaker 5: Ten years old.

00:18:05
Speaker 1: Look, you two are so adorable. I can't take it.

00:18:09
Speaker 3: But you know what we said is that after many many years, and you may have found this too.

00:18:15
Speaker 2: You know, sometimes you take your spouse for granted, or you may not say, oh my god, you're so why are you so cute?

00:18:23
Speaker 3: You know, it's been so many years, and I think we both feel like, you know what, we're going to do that all the time with each other. Every we realize how fragile life is now and we don't have that many years. We have less years to be together.

00:18:41
Speaker 5: My kids like that, what happened to You're so nice?

00:18:45
Speaker 1: You're like, I'm a happy man. That's what Leve will do to right.

00:18:51
Speaker 4: But it's I think there's a situation where you get to the point where, because you've had laws, you this whole deal becomes a you just appreciate it. You appreciate the new, the new thing and you and you uh, and so.

00:19:15
Speaker 5: You know that.

00:19:17
Speaker 4: I think you know, when you when you've go with somebody as long as both of us were, you know, there are patterns should develop. There's a little bit of scar tissue that builds up because you know this, and uh uh and so you don't ever want to take anybody for granted, but sometimes you do a little bit. And uh and that's the thing with me, I've learned. You know, you can't take anything for granted. You can't take any day for granted. You don't know what's gonna happen tomorrow. And so we just want to be appreciative of everything we have every day. Yeah, and beyond that, we also want to express that appreciation to each other, uh every day and uh uh you know, I think you know, with my wonderful wife Lisa, I probably didn't appreciate her as much as I should have.

00:20:01
Speaker 5: I mean, she knew I did.

00:20:03
Speaker 4: I knew she did, but we were now a lot more vital about it.

00:20:07
Speaker 2: And so you know, it's a good thing.

00:20:11
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's really a beautiful thing, actually new when you really understand the value of what you are blessed to have in your life, you know, and like you said, you don't take it for granted. Kim. You I know you were diagnosed with breads cancer. How old were you at that time?

00:20:40
Speaker 2: It was eight years ago and I'm sixty six today.

00:20:43
Speaker 1: Okay, not that long ago, not that long.

00:20:46
Speaker 3: Ago, but eight years completely cancer free and clean and healthy, and yeah, it was.

00:20:53
Speaker 2: It was quite the journey.

00:20:55
Speaker 1: Do you think that changed your perspective on life? Because you had lost your first husband, now you have breast cancer, you're fighting, you're battling breast cancer. And then how long have you all been married? Since twenty twenty five?

00:21:12
Speaker 4: Ye?

00:21:12
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're not quite a year yet.

00:21:13
Speaker 1: Okay, that makes sense. So you but you were battling this on your own.

00:21:18
Speaker 2: Uh huh?

00:21:18
Speaker 3: I was, and I think it changes you. You know, it was hard for me because after I had gone through so I was doing beauty, as we talked about before we came on the air on the Ellen Show, and I had none. I had lost all my hair, I lost my eyebrows, my eyelashes, I was green in my skin tone. And I had lost seventeen pounds in about six weeks because of the drugs.

00:21:50
Speaker 2: So I'm here, I'm talking about beauty and you know, I don't have any And.

00:21:54
Speaker 3: It was very difficult to go on and talk about surface things when you're going through such a depth of fighting for your life. And I do think it changed me a lot after that because I really did want to make a difference, and I wanted to have a deeper, richer purpose, And after Jerry's passing, I did pray for that and I really believe that this man right here is the answer to that.

00:22:24
Speaker 2: And he just was. You know, he has such a great purpose in his life.

00:22:28
Speaker 3: He lives his life in such a way of giving back to others and doing enormous charity and philanthropic work.

00:22:37
Speaker 2: He goes to Africa and Tanzania.

00:22:39
Speaker 3: We went for our honeymoon to Tanzania and we were with the Massai people and there are a group of people that have no internet, don't want to do anything regarding you know, computers, and it was really so refreshing and it was what I had really wanted and prayed for after going through cancer, to have a deeper me and do more with my life.

00:23:03
Speaker 1: I can imagine it became less fulfilling to talk about that superficial beauty stuff. Yeah, at that point, do you think you'll ever return to that space or are you still? Are you back in that space? I mean, you are beautiful. I don't care if you're what.

00:23:20
Speaker 4: Is that story you like to her?

00:23:24
Speaker 2: Brandy All? No, yeah, I mean, never.

00:23:30
Speaker 3: Mind you never mind, you know what, I think that you.

00:23:37
Speaker 4: Should see the amount of brush as she has in her I mean.

00:23:41
Speaker 1: Understand, it takes a lot of work, Tim Do you.

00:23:45
Speaker 2: Think this just happened right?

00:23:49
Speaker 3: No, But honestly, we are in the process of writing a book about our story and about loss and grief and age and to never get up hope and that love is always right around the corner, no matter how old you are, and it's really going to be a beautiful story. But by the same token, I know that people do know me from the beauty space, and I think talking about beauty and keeping yourself looking your very best is really important too.

00:24:21
Speaker 1: For sure. It's self care. It's it's very important how we take care of ourselves, how we want to show up in the world and for the people that we love around us.

00:24:30
Speaker 2: Exactly.

00:24:30
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'm never going to get I wanted to get us raid.

00:24:34
Speaker 2: Yet would you not look better with us?

00:24:36
Speaker 4: Right? Yet?

00:24:38
Speaker 1: Everybody does look better.

00:24:41
Speaker 4: That?

00:24:42
Speaker 1: Okay? You know what I backt that, I'm okay, sorry, sorry, maybe he'll let you put lotion.

00:24:50
Speaker 2: Bronzer. O.

00:24:52
Speaker 1: Lord, Well, I have to say, it wasn't you know, all for nothing? I told you before we were on the air that you brought me so many giggles whenever I saw you in any segment, whether it was on the news or on eleanor wherever it was. So your work was important. Thank you in just a different way. And I love that you're focusing now and writing this book together, and I think that readers are really going to love it. Have you titled it yet?

00:25:22
Speaker 3: Well, we have a working title, Love After Loss and you know, but then we're going to have a little bit more and yeah, I think it's important that we share our story with others and that people do see that, you know, there is life after terrible loss and grief and whatever your loss is, if it's the loss of a home with the fires that we've been akin to in Los Angeles, or a job or God forbid, a child, or a marriage, you know, or even your breast, whatever it is, you can overcome it.

00:25:58
Speaker 2: And our faith was our foundation.

00:26:02
Speaker 1: Are you living in Los Angeles and Virginia now?

00:26:06
Speaker 5: Yes?

00:26:07
Speaker 1: Okay by coastal almost? Yeah, this is great. How do you both or do you both still honor or? I guess think about visit whatever it is for you your late husband and wife. Do you do that separately. Do you do that together?

00:26:26
Speaker 3: Well, you know, we just went through Christmas, and one of the things that we did. Tim's late wife passed away around the Christmas season, which made it extra hard. And we were putting up the Christmas tree and we were doing it together, and he came across a box of ornaments and one was a beautiful ornament that had Lisa's name on it and had been made for her. And he so sweetly said, you know, this was an ornament that was recently to Lisa, and I don't want to make you feel uncomfortable at all, so I'm going to put it back away and keep it.

00:27:08
Speaker 2: And I said, let's not.

00:27:10
Speaker 3: Let's open it back up and let's put it on the center of the tree. Because first off, this is she built this family with Tim, and they built the five children and the beautiful home. And I feel and I really mean this. I know it sounds all, you know, cheesy or whatever, but I feel privileged to be a part of this family that Tim and Lisa built and these beautiful children. And I want her always to have a place of prominence in our lives.

00:27:38
Speaker 2: I really do.

00:27:39
Speaker 3: And she made him happy for forty seven years, so I want to always thank her.

00:27:45
Speaker 1: That's so beautiful, not really God really.

00:27:48
Speaker 4: And the same with Jerry, and so you know, because Hunter, you know, he's his dad, right, and so it's very important. Yeah, you know, you still forget on, but you know, at the same time, we're building a new life together.

00:28:03
Speaker 5: So you know, it's you know, we just we just kind of deal with it.

00:28:10
Speaker 1: Yeah, what would you say to anyone listening out there right now who is grieving the loss of a spouse and thinks that there is no future for them as far as another relationship or another love of their life.

00:28:21
Speaker 4: I would say it's hard, but I was able to bounce back, maybe a little more quickly than a lot of people. And in my case, I was really pretty pretty devastated because right to the very end, you asked Kim the question, you.

00:28:41
Speaker 5: Know, did Jerry say it's okay, you know, find somebody later.

00:28:47
Speaker 4: We never had that conversation because right to literally the day Lisa passed away, she was still doing the chemo treatment and.

00:28:55
Speaker 5: We were thinking she's going to get through it.

00:28:57
Speaker 4: So we never had a discussion about while I'm going goodbye kind of thing. And uh, you know, because she I read to the very end. It was like, no, you're not going anywhere, so uh and so I was pretty devastated. And I also was kind of like, what's the deal here?

00:29:13
Speaker 5: You know?

00:29:13
Speaker 4: And I mean I've been a very strong Christian literally all my life, but I was sort of like question.

00:29:20
Speaker 5: Well, gud, why where did you take her?

00:29:21
Speaker 4: I mean, we we just got to a point where we're having sort of fun, you know, and you know, we we we there're a lot of trips together, we you know, we you know, fair the exotic stuff, and it was really a lot of fun and we're having a great time.

00:29:35
Speaker 5: And now she's gone. I'm on, you know, well I'm not by myself my family, but they're not here.

00:29:41
Speaker 6: And and I I began a much more intense study of the Bible than I had up to that point, and I really started reading through the songs.

00:29:53
Speaker 5: And I read through the songs.

00:29:56
Speaker 4: And it's it's almost like I suddenly had this phone called a revelation.

00:30:03
Speaker 5: That's a little too strong.

00:30:04
Speaker 4: But I realized that grief had to was fine, you have to grieve. But then I began to really appreciate the life we had had, and the grief really moved over and became joy, because I really began to become more and more thankful for what we had experienced together, and that was more important to me than feeling sorry for myself.

00:30:32
Speaker 1: It's gone when they say that, Yes, the gratitude is what moves you forward, It really is.

00:30:39
Speaker 4: And that's so that was a huge thing for me.

00:30:42
Speaker 5: And as I moved into.

00:30:44
Speaker 4: The sort of the gratitude stage, it just was able to make me open to sort of a home new series of things.

00:30:53
Speaker 1: And you know, she does that to me, You got seriously.

00:31:00
Speaker 5: That's not a pot belly, but you know, it's so funny.

00:31:06
Speaker 4: But you know, you know, well, I mean that's for other people. I would say the same thing. You look back on it and and start focusing on the good.

00:31:16
Speaker 7: Stuff and the fun and the joy and and just be thankful for what you had, because you know a lot of people never even get that.

00:31:27
Speaker 2: That's right.

00:31:28
Speaker 4: And so if you if you look back and say, yeah, God, you know, you gave me this great time with with whomever it is, uh, and and thank you for it, it gives you the ability to sort of move on. And you know, and I realized I needed to move on. So, you know, I had a couple of false stars.

00:31:48
Speaker 2: But that's shall we go back there? Let's go back there.

00:31:53
Speaker 1: I don't think he wants to. He's like I like you too, are just horrible. I'm beyond happy for you. Thank you both so much for coming on to share your love story and why you should never give up on finding love at any age or any stage of life.

00:32:14
Speaker 3: That's right, Absolutely, that's our motto and we want to share that.

00:32:19
Speaker 2: So just never give up. It's always around the.

00:32:21
Speaker 1: Corner, beautiful. Thank you so much for hanging out with you. I have wonderful Thank you, Thank you soon, Kim.

00:32:30
Speaker 2: All right, any bye bye.

00:32:32
Speaker 1: Do you have an I Do Part two story you want to share? Call us or email us. All the info is in the show notes. Follow us on socials. Make sure to rate and review the podcast I Do Part two an iHeartRadio podcast where falling in love is the main objectives