My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me: A Memoir

An inspiring memoir of life, love, loss, and new beginnings by the widower of bestselling childrens author and filmmaker Amy Krouse Rosenthal, whose last of act of love before her death was setting the stage for her husbands life without her in the viral New York Times Modern Love column, You May Want to Marry My Husband.

On March 3, 2017, Amy Krouse Rosenthal penned an op-ed piece for the New York Times Modern Love column You May Want to Marry My Husband. It appeared ten days before her death from ovarian cancer. A heartbreaking, wry, brutally honest, and creative play on a personal adin which a dying wife encouraged her husband to go on and find happiness after her demisethe column quickly went viral, reaching more than five million people worldwide.

In My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me, Jason describes what came next: his commitment to respecting Amys wish, even as he struggled with her loss. Surveying his life before, with, and after Amy, Jason ruminates on love, the pain of watching a loved one suffer, and what it means to healhow he and their three children, despite their profound sorrow, went on. Jasons emotional journey offers insights on dying and death and the excruciating pain of losing a soulmate, and illuminates the lessons he learned.

As he reflects on Amys gift to hima fresh start to fill his empty space with a new storyJason describes how he continues to honor Amys life and her last wish, and how he seeks to appreciate every day and live in the moment while trying to help others coping with loss. My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me is the poignant, unreserved, and inspiring story of a great love, the aftermath of a marriage ended too soon, and how a surviving partner eventually found a new perspective on lifes joys in the wake of tremendous loss.