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Widower Married 73 Years Writes A Song To His Wife (Video)
Fred writes a moving love letter to his “Sweet Lorraine”. A Letter From Fred from Green Shoe Studio on Vimeo.Fred’s song, Sweet Lorriane, is available on iTunes. The post Widower Married 73 Years...
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The Abandoned Table: Changing Places After a Death in the Family
View image | gettyimages.com After the loss, where do you sit? How do you fill the empty space?____We ate dinner at the antique oak table. Vic’s stepfather had given it to us when we bought our home...
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Can You Be Both Mother and Father?
After her husband died, Edie Weinstein raised her son alone. Now she reflects on whether one parent can or should even try to fulfill the roles of both.___I was widowed at age 40, back in 1998. My...
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Why We Need to Give Men Permission to Grieve
View image | gettyimages.com“We feel we should be strong enough to handle grief on our own. Grief doesn’t give us that option.”____There are good reasons for not dealing with grief. We have to go to...
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Surviving and Thriving After Experiencing Grief and Loss
Embed from Getty ImagesLosing a loved one has disrupted your life and thrown your emotions in a whirlwind. Now, how do you recover?—It is devastating when someone you love dies and you have to somehow...
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How an ‘Angel’ Gave a Widower a New Lease on Life
When 82-year-old Dan Peterson lost his wife, he fell into a deep depression. He was ready to give up on life until a 4-year-old stranger turned everything around. Steve Hartman met the unlikely pair...
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We Cuddled, I Cried: Male Vulnerability and the Reality of Dating as a Widower
Embed from Getty Images We Cuddled, I CriedI can’t believe I am admitting this.We Cuddled, I CriedThis is so embarrassing.We Cuddled, I CriedI have never been afraid to show emotion. A product of who...
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Sit Down and Shut Up
Embed from Getty Images—I wrote this on February 14th, 2017. Valentine’s Day. After I just read another post from a widow friend who is being made to feel like an awful human because she chose to try...
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Why I Talk About My Late Wife
Embed from Getty Images—I know so many think it.Heck, some even admit it to me.Why do you talk about Michelle so much?Aren’t you worried your blog and all that you write is going to make it harder to...
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It Bothers Me When . . .
Embed from Getty Images—It bothers me when.It bothers me when: I get introduced to someone as John. And there is no Michelle. That, in itself, is a moment of Hell.It bothers me when: They think that I...
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Widower Pens Emotonal Response to Blog Follower
Embed from Getty Images—Up until this very moment, I had only admitted this to a few close friends, but the truth is the last month or so I have been occasionally frustrated with my blog page.I pour...
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Stop the Shame
Embed from Getty Images—Did you know that widows feel shame?Did you know that widowers feel shame?I just realized this.As I was driving to hospice bereavement last week it hit me like a ton of...
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Patton Oswalt’s Engagement: What Should Grief Look Like? (and Who are We to...
Embed from Getty ImagesThe rancor over Patton Oswalt’s engagement fifteen months after his wife’s death drives home the point that only the grieving can decide how to grieve, or conversely, when to be...
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A Hopeful Man
Embed from Getty Images—Hope.We had you.From time to time.The truth is though, you were more of a dream.Not a reality.Of hers. Or mine.Early on, we felt you so.A few weeks into our new reality, we...
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When You Washed Her Back
Embed from Getty Images—The nurses and hospice staff kept asking me if I wanted them to give Michelle a bath.I said no the first few times, I didn’t want to disturb her.I was scared.Every time she...
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Widowed at 35
— Laura J. Wellington is a successful technology entrepreneur, award-winning children’s entertainment creator, author and mom to five children. She founded THREADMB.com, where she combines interviews...
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Feeling Like Second Best: Challenges of Dating a Widow
— Dating isn’t easy for anyone. Most people come with emotional baggage. Maybe they’re unlucky finding a partner, are recently going through a divorce, or are widowed. And although all these situations...
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Am I Too Old to Start Over Again?
I am a sixty-two-year-old, retired, financially secure man, and I would like to start dating, but I don’t know where to turn. I am openly gay and a couple of years ago my husband who I’d been with...
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Discovering the Paradox of Grief
One of the more difficult aspects of grief for me has been trying to explain the connection between the great sadness I have experienced and the life changes that have been influenced by that grief. I...
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How Does a Widower Begin Again? Ask Allana.
You asked Coach Allana Pratt: My wife of almost 14 years as of September 23, 2014 had passed away. Is it common for a widower to feel like he can never or ever will be able to touch, kiss or make love...
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