Simon Thomas speaks about being in a new relationship a year after his wife’s death
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The Sky Sports presenter, Simon Thomas has talked about being in a relationship almost after a year since his wife, Gemma, 40 died of acute myeloid leukemia, which is an aggressive blood cancer. She had been diagnosed just three days earlier in November 2017. The couple had been married since 2005 and has a nine year old son, Ethan. Now it has been a year since Gemma’s death and Simon has revealed he may have found “love” again and may be in the “early stages” of a new romance.
While speaking on BBC Radio 5 Live to Anna Foster, Simon said that the new lady love is someone completely new who he did not know before and got to know her within the last few weeks and months. He claims she has been tremendous support for him during his difficult time. He found her having empathy towards him and he bonded with her especially since she is also a Christian and Thomas considers himself as a “man of faith” and finds it quite important. He says she is one of the only persons who would always pick up his phone. He says he saw in her what he also saw in Gemma, his late wife. The 45 year old commented that “when she said her phone is always on, she really meant it” Simon admitted that he has started to fall in love again and in many ways it is “strange to feel that way again”. He said he has no doubt struggled with trying to move on after his wife’s death and trying to pursue a new relationship a year later.
Simon went on to say that he feels that you do not really move on from what has happened to a loved one. There is a hole which is left behind and that does not shrink over time. In fact, your life begins to grow around that hole and you end up dealing with some of the challenges of grief you have to deal with and the challenges of being a single parent. He said “I had two choices, either to give up and i cannot do that and neither do i want to do that as i have to bring up my boy, which I promised Gemma. The only other choice that you have left is that you walk. I felt right from the start that i have go to find my life again” he went on to say that he really hopes that other people would also understand that he is not replacing Gemma with his new relationship.
Simon claimed that the thought of you replacing someone can cause others a lot of hurt and there is a lot of misunderstanding that can come from this thought as we think meeting someone else means you are forgetting the person who is gone. He says, there are surely no shoes which are left to be filled and there will certainly never be another Gemma. He says we all unique and we come to the table with different personalities and especially when you are getting into a new relationship, comparing two people is a futile task which should not be done. It is not my fault and neither anyone else’s fault of what happened to Gemma.
The broadcaster said he will also be introducing his new partner to Gemma’s family and he understands it will surely be a painful reminder of the “physical” absence of Gemma.