Amanda Kloots confronts biggest misconception about dating after losing a spouse

Amanda Kloots is challenging a common misconception about dating after losing a spouse — that moving forward means leaving the person you lost behind.

Kloots, who lost her husband, Broadway star Nick Cordero, to COVID-19 in 2020, said widows and widowers can face judgment when they begin opening their hearts to someone new — even though grief and love don't simply disappear when a new relationship begins.

AMANDA KLOOTS HONORS LATE HUSBAND NICK CORDERO IN NEW MEMOIR, SAYS HE ‘TRULY JUST LOVED LIFE’ "The heart can hold a lot of love," Kloots said in an interview with Fox News Digital.

"And just because I'm dating again or any widow or widower is dating again, it doesn't mean that you don't love your person that you lost still or any less." "It’s in fact more," the " Good Grief " podcast host shared.

Kloots isn't asking people to believe that grief disappears.

She's asking them to acknowledge that it doesn't have to prevent someone from living.

AMANDA KLOOTS SHARES 'HUGE MEDICAL BILL' FROM NICK CORDERO'S HOSPITAL STAY, VENTILATOR COST $3,000 DAILY "I have many compartments in my heart for love and new relationships," she said.

"It's like having more children.

It doesn't mean you… love your child less… now [that] you have a new child.

Your heart is able to hold many, many types of love, and I wish people understood that you can hold those two things very close." She said new love does not erase old love.

And for anyone who dates a widow or widower, Kloots explained that reality needs to be understood from the start.

WATCH: AMANDA KLOOTS DEFENDS DATING AGAIN AFTER HUSBAND NICK CORDERO'S DEATH "These people are never leaving our lives, but there's definitely room and space for new love, new relationships, new marriage and it's so beautiful." "Celebrate and help and support friends in your life who are on this journey," she said.

"It is so difficult and it is so hard and if you make it harder for us, it really isn't fair." "So really support those people and guide them along on this because they're doing something that is something they never wish they had to do," she continued.

"It's not, they're not dating again because ‘yay!’ It's a different type of dating again.