Zdenka Volavá, Director of Dlouhá cesta: What changes in a partnership after the death of a child?
Zdenka is a mother who lost her 21-year-old son. And since 2022, she has also been the chairwoman of the Dlouhá cesta association. Dlouhá cesta supports families in which a child has died - at any age and for any reason. In this podcast, we introduce Dlouhá cesta. But we will also focus on the difficult topic of changes in a partnership after the death of a child.
"If someone had played this for me ten years before or five years before, I would have said: that's not me at all, I would never behave like that, I have never behaved like that. But after that loss, I behaved like that and I didn't even recognize myself. So I feel that maybe my husband had to get used to my new self much more than I had to get used to his."