Amanda Kloots has "space in [her] heart to love again".
The 44-year-old TV star lost her husband, Nick Cordero, six years ago, but Amanda is now looking for love once again.
Amanda - who welcomed son Elvis with her late husband in 2019 - told Us Weekly: "Letting love back into your life is a journey and sometimes it takes a long time and sometimes people find it right away.
"I would say the best advice I can give anybody is if you have a friend in my situation, just love and support them.
"Because when you start dating again after loss, you have to understand you’re not dating again because you want to. This is not like an exciting thing, you don’t want to be in this position, but you do have a heart, and you have a life that you want to live."
Amanda is convinced that Nick - who died from COVID-19-related complications after more than three months in the hospital - would "want [her] to love again".
She shared: "I want to love again and I know Nick would want me to love again.
"It’s like having five children. You don’t love them less when you have more. There’s more parts in your heart. So I think it’s a journey. I think what I can tell you is that in dating again after loss, I’ve learned so much about myself."
Amanda believes dating is part of a bigger "jigsaw puzzle".
The TV star said: "Everyone that I’ve dated, even if it’s just one date, it’s a piece of the puzzle that I’m slowly putting myself back together.
"I haven’t found that centre piece yet, but I hope I do because I know it’s what I want and I hope and I dream for. But it’s been a beautiful puzzle and I’ve really enjoyed learning what I need now because what I need now is very different from what I needed when I met Nick, and very different from what I needed when he passed away."
