A month out from her husband’s assassination, and days before a new honor, Erika Kirk shared some insight on what she’s been going through with a revelation on her love for him.
Friday marked 30 days since 31-year-old husband, father and Christian patriot Charlie Kirk had been fatally shot during an event at Utah Valley University on September 10. After weeks flitting into the public eye as she took the reins at the organization her husband co-founded, Turning Point USA, and ahead of his being posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the widow posted a message to express, “…there is no linear blueprint for grief.”
So began the social media post that had been seen more than 1.2 million times overnight as Kirk captioned a video montage that featured her and her husband, as well as their two young children, in addition to moments from his memorial service.
Revealing her ups and downs in the time since her husband was martyred, she expressed, “One day you’re collapsed on the floor crying out the name Jesus in between labored breaths. The next you’re playing with your children in the living room, surrounded by family photos, and feeling a rush of something you can only attempt to define as divinely planted and bittersweet joy as a smile breaks through on your face.”
…there is no linear blueprint for grief. One day you’re collapsed on the floor crying out the name Jesus in between labored breaths. The next you’re playing with your children in the living room, surrounded by family photos, and feeling a rush of something you can only attempt… pic.twitter.com/kzW5cCPQTA
— Erika Kirk (@MrsErikaKirk) October 10, 2025
“They say time heals,” Kirk’s message continued. “But love doesn’t ask to be healed. Love asks to be remembered. It’s humbling to realize that this magnitude of suffering didn’t steal my love for my husband. It amplified it. It crystallized it.”
“I carry my Charlie in every breath, in every ache, and in every quiet act of day to day living as I attempt to relearn what that rhythm will be,” she detailed. “And what I’ve realized through these past 30 days is the greater the suffering, the purer the love. And I have never loved him more than I do now.”
Friday’s message was posted ahead of an expected Tuesday ceremony from the White House’s East Room, where President Donald Trump plans to posthumously bestow the highest civilian honor on Charlie Kirk with the Presidential Medal of Freedom on what would have been the TPUSA founder’s 32nd birthday.
Speaking from the Oval Office, the president had announced that he would be returning from a trip to the Middle East in time for the ceremony and “Erika, his beautiful wife, is gonna be here — a lot of people are gonna be here … You know, it’s not easy for me to get back. It’s a very quick trip. But I’ll be making two major stops and then I’ll be on the plane trying to get back in time for Charlie. They’re gonna have a great celebration at the White House, in the East Room of the White House.”
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“Erika, his beautiful wife, is going to be here, and a lot of people are going to be here.”
“I’m coming back, I believe it’s Tuesday night for Charlie… pic.twitter.com/hemXwreWFh
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 10, 2025
As for TPUSA, not long after the memorial for her husband, Kirk had explained how, unlike her grief, the organization did have a “blueprint” thanks in part to advanced planning by the founder.
In addition to crediting the team assembled by her husband for “The Charlie Kirk Show,” each representing a “piece of his brain that still lives on,” Kirk had revealed there was “decades’ worth” of content from her husband that had not been aired and that the organization had a “plan moving past 2030 that [Charlie’s] shared with the team and has implemented so we’re not going anywhere. We have the blueprint.”
Public response to Kirk’s message was overwhelmingly supportive as others marveled at her strength, including her capacity for forgiveness that she had publicly offered to the individual who assassinated her husband.
Grief and love really do share the same heartbeat. You write it with such grace … the ache, the beauty, the divine thread that holds it all together.
— SurfinSatoshis (@SurfinSatoshis) October 10, 2025
I’m so so sorry for your loss.
Cannot even come close to imagining what it’s like to lose a partner and a parent for my kids.
Thank you for being a model of forgiveness.
— Matt Van Swol (@matt_vanswol) October 10, 2025
It never gets easier.
But you do get stronger, and God will help you carry it between reps.
He’s a great spotter.
God bless you and your sweet babies.
— Wildfire Whispers (@WildfireWhisper) October 11, 2025
I lost my son 24 years ago and I found comfort in exactly that, “the greater the love the deeper the pain Charlie’s passing took another little piece of my heart, he was great at “being human” now he is everywhere. I think of you and Charlie everyday.
I envy your faith
— Rennie Scranton (@Renniedogee) October 10, 2025
May God bless you and keep you Mrs. Kirk and send
his holiest of angels to protect you and your beautiful children. Sending prayers and so much love.— Renumerated (@Renumerated) October 10, 2025
Pray for Erika
“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”
– Jesus— Victor Fitzgerald (@ReadFitzgerald) October 11, 2025
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Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn’t researching current events and their impacts, you’ll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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