“You’re so young. How did he die?” Perhaps I too was like you…curious to make sense of how a life so full of potential ends so unexpectedly. But now that I’ve been widowed for 5+ years, I know the “how” doesn’t matter. Not to me, and not to anyone who has experienced...
You’ve been told that you’ve survived possibly the worst thing that will ever happen to you: the death of a spouse. Despite wanting to give up, you pushed through. You continued to face each day even when you wished for death to take you. The pain was just...
“Why are you going to hang out with a bunch of sad, depressed people?” Widows/widowers – especially those beyond the one year mark – are often chided by friends and family for continuing to be associated with “depressing groups”. But, widow meet ups aren’t the typical...
1. They Choose Happiness You’ve had one of the absolute worst things happen to you. Your soulmate, your husband, the love of your life was taken much too soon. Sadly, we all know that pain. We know what it’s like to cry for what was and what can never be. We cry for...
Tupak Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G. Elton John and Madonna Hillary Clinton and The Donald While I certainly expect there to be “beefs” in music and politics, I never expected to see so many widow beefs. This widowed group has a problem with that widow because she...
It’s been 4 years, 10 months and 8 days since I became a widow. If I’ve learned nothing else about this journey, I’ve learned that death doesn’t give a damn about you, your life or your family. Death didn’t care that I was in church, worshiping as my hubby took his...
