If you love our laughter, it’s because we’ve known the heartache of loving and losing. It’s because we’ve gotten to a place where laughter didn’t feel like a betrayal; where laughter didn’t hide the tears and frustrations. We’ve fought through the guilt and now...
Back in 1997, I never thought of her as a widow. We were on the cusp of adulthood, about to graduate from the high school that brought us together.We didn’t run in the same circles but had friends in common.It was March of that year when tragedy struck our school. A...
There have been many articles written about dating someone who has lost a spouse. You’ll hear about our heart expanding to let more love in, and how we’ve learned a deeper appreciation for love and life. Those are all facts. But, there are also a few additional...
Ask anyone who is widowed and they will tell you they’ve gotten no shortage of advice – from family, friends, in-laws, other widows and widowers, and some people not even qualified to give a dog a command. But how do you know what’s fact and what’s fiction? How...
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...
