Terri Irwin Shares Why She Won't Date Again 18 Years After Husband Steve Irwin's Death

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Terri Irwin is very content with how her life is. In a recent interview, the 59-year-old conservationist shared why she’ll never date again, 18 years after husband Steve Irwin died in September 2006. Keep reading to find out more…“I totally got my happily ever after,” Terri shared with Us Weekly. “And while there are a lot of wonderful men in the world, can you see another Steve Irwin?

I just can’t. I’d be like, ‘I love that you’re a librarian and the Dewey Decimal System is cool, but I got to go jump a crocodile and do that.’ Forget that.” Terri and Steve married in 1992 and share two kids – daughter Bindi Irwin, 25, and son Robert Irwin, 20. Steve died in September 2006 at the age of 44 after he was pierced in the chest by a short-tail stingray barb while filming his show The Crocodile Hunter in the Great Barrier Reef. “I had the best marriage in the whole world for 14 years, and I’m very comfortable with the person I see in the mirror,” Terri reflected. “So I’m okay to be on my own now.

And I’m lonely for Steve, but I’m not a lonely person, so I’m very lucky.” Terri also said that if Steve was still alive, he would be “very proud” of the work she and their children have done in his honor, saying it had been a “big dream” of his to keep conservation efforts going. “He would actually go [and] stare [into the fire],” Terri recalled. “And [one day] he came in and he goes, ‘We have to have children.

Who are we going to leave this all to? We have to have children.’ And I go, ‘Just because you have kids, doesn’t mean they’re going to be interested in what you’re doing.’ And he goes, ‘No, we’re having children and they’re going to love wildlife and conservation.’” Bindi also recently opened up about her father’s legacy.