Never say never to new love, says Terri Irwin
WIDOW of Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin says she still expects him to come back home to her.
THE widow of Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin says she would "never say never to anything" but any new relationship would only be for love.
Terri Irwin admits she still waits for her husband to come home but says her family had set new life goals - and a new man for the 45-year-old did not figure in the plan.
Watching her children Bindi and Robert frolic on the beach near their Australia Zoo home on the Sunshine Coast this week, Mrs Irwin said she wanted to continue her drive for social entrepreneurship, encouraging industry to have an environmental and conservation conscience.
"You know if I hadn't met Steve I wouldn't have married, not because of any other reason than I was busy with a career and not really looking and now it's just not on my horizon," she said.
"I took the vow to love each other and be married as long as we both shall live.
"I should have done that 'til death does us part' vow. I have that sense of loyalty still with Steve and I think there's really no right or wrong (to finding love again) and you should honour your feelings.
"I knew people who have married pretty rapidly after losing a spouse . . . particularly with older people it seems like a friendship thing.
"It's a different thing than just that total abandonment of desperate love, so finding love again is beautiful but for me it's not on my horizon."
Mrs Irwin said while she would "never say never to anything" she now felt she was living another life in the wake Steve's death four years ago.
"I've lived my life with Steve and now I'm a mother and I'm passionately in love with my children," she said.
"I just desperately love those kids and they fill my every moment.
"Some days I can't believe it's been almost four years since we lost Steve and other times a part of me is still waiting for him to come home."