S4 - EP2 - A Love Cut Short: Hannah Ramsey on Childhood Sweethearts, Sudden Loss and Grief

In this episode of Widowed AF, Rosie Moss sits down with Hannah Ramsey to tell a love story that began in childhood and ended far too soon.

Hannah and her husband, Blue, met in primary school and spent 35 years building a life together. They raised four children, ran a business from home, renovated houses, travelled, laughed, and lived with a deep sense of partnership and mutual respect. Blue was thoughtful, practical, endlessly capable, and deeply present as both a husband and a father.

Everything changed after a cycling accident on what should have been an ordinary ride. Hannah takes us into the disorienting world that followed: hospital corridors, neurological terminology, impossible waiting, and the unbearable moment of being told that survival would mean a life without consciousness. With honesty and quiet strength, she shares what it was like to sit with those realities, to honour long-held conversations about quality of life, and to say goodbye while still holding his hand.

This conversation doesn’t shy away from the hardest parts of loss. Hannah speaks openly about the withdrawal of life support, the strange rituals of the hospital, the logistics that follow death, and the emotional weight of decisions no one ever expects to make. She also reflects on what helped her survive those early days: community, routine, gardening, friendship, and the permission to simply be “good enough” when perfection was impossible.

Together, Rosie and Hannah explore the long tail of grief, the complexities of anger and compassion, the limits of traditional support spaces, and the quiet comfort found in shared stories and connection. It’s a tender, devastating, and deeply human episode about love, loss, and learning how to keep living when the person you built your world with is gone.

Key themes:

• Childhood sweethearts and lifelong partnership

• Sudden loss and catastrophic injury

• Making end-of-life decisions

• Parenting after the death of a partner

• Community, ritual, and surviving the early days of grief

• Learning to be “good enough” after loss