After losing her husband at 26, psychotherapist's second marriage ‘opened up new possibilities’: He's my 'biggest cheerleader'

When Amy Morin was 26, her husband of five years died suddenly of a heart attack.

They’d started building a life together, including buying a house and becoming foster parents. So “when he died, all of the lifelong dreams I had with him died, too,” says the now 46-year-old psychotherapist and author.

Morin didn’t think she’d get married again. “I found love once,” she says she thought, and that was it.

But a few years later, she started dating her now husband, Steve Hasty. The two had met online in high school and reconnected when she needed a date to a wedding. They ended up getting married when she was 30.

These days, her relationship with Hasty is the most monumental in her life, she says. “He’s my biggest cheerleader,” she says. He gives her honest feedback and supports her in her life decisions, big and small.