After his wife died, David Durow needed to adapt to a new way of life, alone in their home. Now, at 80, he has developed a fresh understanding of what it is to be a man.
Durow, a retired academic who specialised in psychology, and Christine, a former headteacher, had been married for 50 years. When she died unexpectedly in 2019, Durow was hit not only by grief, but also a dawning sense of the part he had played in his marriage – and in society. “Suddenly, I had to think about cooking, cleaning, learning how to operate the washing machine,” he says.
