I loved her NOW and then and NOW & ...

You described to me the imminent empty nest.
Staring at each other across the room after 32+ years of marriage, and now, that the kids are gone.. your scared you'll not now what to say.
Well, remember then?
That then that was then NOW? and how it filled all of tomorrow, leaving the NOW breathless and the tomorrow full of promise. And each NOW thereafter fulling that one beautiful moment after the next. That NOW was you, and her. And you are still "you" and "her". That NOW is still NOW. Sure, it sometimes takes a back seat in the midst of then, and the business of here and "now" but ... it does not take to long to stop. To remember. The NOW. It is still here.
But you ask "Will it be the same?". Would it revisit you? Can you bring it back?
Well, if that NOW were not indeed magic, perhaps not. But you remember. It was magic.
And you don't have to try too hard after all. Magic is a bit like that. It lives on its own. It just needs you to be, in the here and the NOW.
Can you ?

Just try.. it'll surprise you.
Breathless.
With tomorrow full of promise.