Businessman Antonio Matos suffered the biggest blow of his life last August. His wife, Caritina Goyanes, died of cardiac arrest in Marbella, where they were on vacation, just a few days after their father-in-law, Carlos Goyanes, died.
Caritina’s widower has spoken for the first time about this painful absence in an interview he gave to the magazine Hello. In it he remembers with love his wife and mother of his two children, Pedro and Minicari, of whom he also speaks. And of the legacy that Caritina left and that he assumes with great dedication and devotion: SixSens catering.
Matos, 47, poses with the partners (the Fraile sisters) with whom Caritina founded her successful food business, for which she was known, despite having previously studied law. Her widower decided to continue running it after Caritina left. “I took it for granted from minute one: I had to continue Cari’s legacy. SixSens was his second family and an important driver for our income. There are eight employees. “We share the same DNA.”
Matos has served as director since then, although he takes credit for himself. “It is a team perfectly capable of continuing. It is like an orchestra that has been left without a conductor… But in which everyone plays phenomenally, “You just have to support them and help them continue doing it.”
Matos saves the most complimentary words for the woman who was his wife for more than 16 years. “I prefer to think that Cari is in a better place. That her father called her because he needed her with him by his side. So now just look at the sky and say, ‘Honey, give me a hand.'”
With this emptiness, Matos takes refuge in his children, ages 15 and 11. “Pedrito is a super mature child for his age and quite sensitive. And he empathizes a lot. Minicari is a little more warlike. I only ask them to get good grades, work and effort. And that they are good people.”. His father anticipates that, at some point, both will pass trays at the family catering. “As soon as they turn 16, they have it completely assumed. Their mother always told them that.”
His in-laws also monopolize many of his comments. We must not forget that her mother-in-law, Cari Lapique, and her sister-in-law, Carla, have lost a daughter and a sister, but also a husband and a father. “I have lost Cari, my life partner, we had both sworn eternal love to each other.. Cari, my mother-in-law, had that commitment with her husband, with Carlos, but she has also lost a daughter. “That doesn’t even have a name.”
Antonio and his children will celebrate this first Christmas without Cari with them. “We will be in the pineapple that we form. “This Christmas is special, we have to get through it together.”