What a Difference a Day Makes: From widows' groups online to lockdown love-affair

Business woman Ezara Ahern-Easter tells Helen O’Callaghan how Covid lockdowns provided the perfect circumstances for her to forge a deep relationship with a man, 4,000 miles away, who would become her husband.

Ezara Ahern Easter

Middke of the pandemic, living in the UK, I’d been furloughed from the company I worked for, had loads of time to potter around.

One afternoon, June 10, 2020, my phone pinged — a Facebook message from the founder of a widows’ group I was in, he’d created this dark humour group for people who’d lost their spouses.