Watch: ‘Ten Months After We Married, I Lost Him To Cancer’: Maltese Mother Heartbreakingly Opens Up About Her Husband Dying
After waiting over a decade and a half to be married, Natasha and Stephen finally got married in the church, as they always wanted.
But just 10 months later, Stephen passed away after battling cancer… leaving Natasha and their young child behind.
In an interview on Topik, Natasha heartbreakingly recounted meeting the love of her life, spending 16 years trying to create a stable family home with him, only for him to suddenly be taken away from her young family.
The pair met in 2001, both worked in the medical centre, and Natasha would see Stephen on her breaks “looking down” and he eventually opened up to her about the separation he was going through.
Over time, they fell in love.
“For the first eight years, it wasn’t easy because he was going through the separation. Eight years later, we had a young boy together – and exactly a year and three months later, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer,” Natasha said.
After 16 years waiting for an annulment from the church to get married within the church themselves, Natasha was left wondering why this happened to her; just three years earlier, she had lost her sister to cancer as well, at the age of just 34.
A visual tribute to Stephen
Though she’s been through so much in her personal relationships, her love remains strong, and she will never forget those she bonded so strongly with.
“I do feel like it’s unfair, that life’s been unfair to me – but I still believe that without God, you won’t get anywhere,” Natasha said resolutely.
“And I think that is a reason our relationship remained so strong. We prayed a lot, I say the Rosary before work and even after work… he would sometimes sleep during the Rosary because of his medicine, but I would continue and say it until the end… without God in our life, nothing’s going to happen.”
She remains determined to live with her beloved’s memory firmly in her heart and mind.
“When it’s true love, you can’t leave your past behind you.”
What do you make of Natasha’s personal story?
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