If you need to make important decisions, you should wait for at least one to two years following such a significant loss. This will give you sufficient time to process the death, go through the stages of grief, and regain some of your diminished cognitive capacities.

Do widowers come back?

Unfortunately, most relationships with a widower come to an end. Some times the woman initiates the break up but more often than not, its the the widower who ends things.