In this chapter, I bring together and discuss further the multiple narratives emerging from my analysis of older widows' stories presented in the previous four chapters. I argue that without an understanding of the multiple and complex narratives of older women's lives, we are in danger of misinterpreting their current experience by subscribing to the dominant, one-dimensional narrative of later life widowhood as a time of loneliness, ill health and misery. Indeed, we ignore the impact of major continuities in older women's lives and focus instead on the discontinuities. By contrast, we only become aware of the subjectivity of the continuities when we engage with these multiple narratives. I go on to argue that although multiple narratives are not predictive, they certainly enable us to better understand the totality of the current experience, and the hidden lives therein. I further suggest that such an understanding also enables older women themselves to make better sense of that experience. I argue for an acceptance of the fluidity of older widows' multiple narratives: as Eunice said, there are days, or circumstances which conspire to make her feel sorry for herself and you think: 'poor me, I'm a widow' (the objective and the subjective come together), but that is not how she feels most of the time. Her major narrative is that of widowhood as a transition but there are times when she dips into widowhood as a time of loneliness and despair. I also acknowledge that both age and gender are integral to older widows' multiple narratives.