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"Lea Michele had her whole future planned with Cory Monteith. Though they weren&amp;apos;t engaged when he died in July 2013 at the age of 31, they were ready to spend the rest of their lives together, and had even talked about starting a family, she reveals in the new issue of Glamour UK.\r\n&amp;quot;We talked about a lot of things. We talked about children and what we would look like when we grew old, and who would be fat and how we would stay thin,&amp;quot; Michele, 27, says of her late love and former Glee costar. &amp;quot;We talked about where we wanted to go and what we wanted to do. We were done. We were it.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;When you&amp;apos;re at that place in your life with someone, you talk about everything,&amp;quot; she explains. &amp;quot;But today I feel like I was given the best part of Cory, and I&amp;apos;m thankful for that.&amp;quot; She&amp;apos;s also thankful for a new year. &amp;quot;I feel physically and emotionally very strong,&amp;quot; the &amp;quot;Cannonball&amp;quot; singer tells Glamour UK.\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;At the start, it&amp;apos;s hard because you&amp;apos;re so physically and mentally shocked and damaged, but after a while you get tired of physically feeling so horrendous,&amp;quot; she says, noting that yoga helped her cope. &amp;quot;Then gradually your mind catches up with your body.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nShe continues: &amp;quot;Now I feel a little bit more back together and I have this blank canvas in front of me, which is what my life can be. There&amp;apos;s something sad about that but also something good, because I will take that blank canvas and make something beautiful out of it.&amp;quot;&amp;#xA0;\r\nFor now, that &amp;quot;something beautiful&amp;quot; does not include romance. &amp;quot;I&amp;apos;ve only ever had serious relationships, so it&amp;apos;s an adjustment putting myself back into a place of being alone. And I was under a Cory Monteith spell...it&amp;apos;ll take time to readjust my mind, and I&amp;apos;m really not wanting to do that right now,&amp;quot; she tells the mag. &amp;quot;I feel like it&amp;apos;s so important to make sure that I&amp;apos;m 100 percent okay before I can get into a relationship. But people have to understand that I can&amp;apos;t be alone forever. Cory wouldn&amp;apos;t want that.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nNot that she has time for romance now anyway. Michele is currently busy promoting her debut album, Louder, which drops March 4. It includes the emotional track &amp;quot;If You Say So,&amp;quot; cowritten by the Glee actress about Monteith, as well as several other very personal songs.\r\n&amp;quot;My main goal as an artist is to be truthful,&amp;quot; she told Us Weekly in a recent interview about the record. &amp;quot;I didn&amp;apos;t record anything I didn&amp;apos;t deeply connect to or feel was true to me. Whether I wrote it or not, everything I&amp;apos;m saying on this album is a part of me.&amp;quot;\r\n&amp;quot;I was lucky enough to experience an amazing love, and I think that this album is really the story of my life over the past two years,&amp;quot; she added. &amp;quot;And when I listen to a song like &amp;apos;You&amp;apos;re Mine,&amp;apos; it makes me so happy, it really does.&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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