The 39-year-old mother of two spent her final months trying to find her husband a new spouse who would value him and her boys.

Motor neuronopathy, a condition that causes muscular weakness, was discovered in Clare Mauremootoo in 2006.

The degenerative sickness, which affects a person’s ability to walk, speak, swallow, and breathe, currently has no known treatment. Clare was horrified at the idea that she wouldn’t be able to support her husband John, who was 11 years old, and their two boys, Ben and Jack.

She spent a lot of time and effort trying to find John a new love, even arranging dates for him with nurses at Somerset’s Weston Hospice, where she spent her final two months.

Despite his wish for Clare to be well enough to return home, John, 52, of Bristol was advised by Clare to prepare for life without her. She hoped he would find a new partner to assist him care for their two boys and share his life with.

According to a remark from him in The Mirror, “She stated she would help me find love.” She even started communicating with hospice staff members to try to set up a date for us.

But I wasn’t prepared. Clare wanted me to be, but I wasn’t sure I would ever be.

John and Clare met in 1993 through mutual acquaintances, and two years later they were married. John had never thought about having a partner in life, so when Clare urged him to start dating again, he was taken aback.

He noted that she would frequently say, “I don’t care how you meet someone.” She even gave us a handful of our friends’ names. Everything appeared to be happening far too rapidly.

Clare and John determined that the 11th of February would be the final time their boys would see her as her condition progressively deteriorated.

Clare spent her last Valentine’s Day with John on February 19, 2007. Four days after that, she passed dead.

John responded, “Clare died in my arms.” “I would take good care of the boys if I told her how much I loved her and told her not to worry about the boys.”

While getting the boys ready for school and cooking their supper, I made an attempt to continue on as usual, but I couldn’t help but feel that Clare was keeping an eye on us.

I never forgot that she wanted me to meet someone new, but I didn’t want the boys to think that I was replacing their mother.

But after the boys went to bed, it was only me. I missed Clare and yearned for her company. So, in May, I created a profile on a dating service.

He met Julie Macfarlane, a nurse who had recently divorced her husband and had two children with him: John, who was then 10 years old, and Isobel, who was 6 years old (seen below with John and his boys).

I informed Jack and Ben I was dating Julie when the time was right, John claimed. They were initially furious with her and her children, but over the course of the next six months, they warmed up to them.

In March 2008, the two families merged, and John and Julie were wed in April 2012. Their three children acted as ushers, while Isobel served as a bridesmaid.

John said, “I discussed Clare’s condition, our interactions, and her hope for me to meet someone wonderful.

I told everyone I imagined Clare looking down on us with a smile because she wanted us to be happy and I believe she would now that things have turned out the way they have.