“Now I know why he went to Cleveland,” she tells people, refusing, even in death, to utter her husband’s name. “He was teaching me how to live alone.”
This one hurt. You could see up until this point how she was acclimating to being on her own and finding out how to fill up the time. I think Ashoke doing this for her is the truest sign of love in their relationship for a couple that had their love built after time. He knew she would've needed to learn on her own.