Encourage Us to Take a Chance When you lose a spouse, your fears, insecurities, and anxieties are often magnified. Widowhood can become a constant state of worry—everything from raising well-adjusted children to finances. Even if things are progressing as well as can...
While you’re busy judging the widowed person in your life, please know… The vacation photos may be his attempt not to feel suffocated in a house that no longer feels like home, especially during the holidays. The excessive attention given to her children may be...
Why are you always talking about your dead spouse? We talk about those we love to honor their memory. Though you may have gotten back to your life the moment you got home from the funeral, we’re left with death and its aftermath. We struggle to make sense of a world...
Society thinks grieving looks like unkempt hair and smudged mascara. That it looks like an untidy house and drawn curtains. They think it is gut-wrenching social media posts and broken-heart emoji. But that’s not always the case. Sometimes grief is family vacations –...
With the holiday season upon on us, many are beginning to plan family gatherings and get-togethers. This time of year can also be stressful for a widow or widower who has anxiety about introducing a new partner to the entire family. If the celebration is at the...
Don’t ever judge a widow for opening her heart to love again. Dating after the loss of a spouse takes balls. Giant ones. To believe in a happily ever after when yours was unfairly and untimely ripped from you… To have to take a self-inventory of who you are...
