Last month, we reported that former “Wonder Woman” star Lynda Carter’s husband of 37 years, gaming CEO Robert A. Altman, had passed away suddenly at the age of 73. Now, Lynda is speaking out to reflect on their marriage, and on the man that she loved.

When she was not in Hollywood, the actress would alway introduce herself as Lynda Carter Altman.

“Here, I’m my husband’s wife,” she would tell the colleagues of her husband in Washington D.C.

Robert died on February 3 after a surgical procedure, and his death came as a shock to his family and friends.

“Robert is the love of my life and he always will be,” said Lynda, 69, according to Closer Weekly. “We protected each other and were each other’s champions always.”

When they got married back in 1984, Lynda was moving into the post-“Wonder Woman” phase of her career, and Altman was a hotshot lawyer from Washington D.C. They raised two children together: James, 33, and Jessica, 30, and they lived in a beautiful 20,000-square-foot Georgian-style mansion in Potomac, Maryland that they built in 1987.

Throughout their marriage, Robert and Lynda faced countless challenges that would have destroyed many couples. She stood by him when he was tried and acquitted for banking fraud in the early 1990s, and when he reinvented himself as the chief executive of a multibillion-dollar video game company. He then stood by her when entered rehab for alcoholism in 1997.

The abruptness of Robert’s death has made it particularly hard to stomach for Carter.

“Lynda kept his illness pretty quiet,” said a friend, who said they heard that Robert had cancer. “She never planned on losing Robert like this. It’s never fair, but they had plans. They were supposed to grow old together.”

After Robert’s death, Lynda posted an emotional tribute to him on social media.

“You are the most honorable person that I have ever had the privilege to know. And I got to be your wife and the mother of your children,” she wrote. “Thank you for giving me all the love in my life. Nothing could prepare our family for this moment, but we will do our best to follow our dreams and honor the legacy you’ve left behind. I will love you always and forever.”