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...
1. You Can Go On Even When You Feel Like Giving Up I honestly didn’t think I’d survive the first month of being widowed, yet here I am… 88 months later. The sad, broken part of me couldn’t see myself climbing out of the rawest stage of my grief. There were many times...
There is a quote that says, “Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.”I wish someone would have told me six years ago that I would be “okay”. I wish there was another widow who could have told that even though I couldn’t see the road...
I can’t remember when I heard the phrase “Chapter 2” for the first time. I believe it was on a Facebook page dedicated to supporting the widowed community. A widow lamented that she’d never find another man to love her the way she’d been loved by her hubby. Her...
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 –...
There is something about widowhood that brings you to your knees. I remember feeling trapped in an alternative universe trying to make sense of the chaos that surrounded me. The most troubling part was that the one person who was capable of steadying my boat –...
