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Debbie Weiss is a writer, yogi, gardener and former attorney. After her husband died of cancer in April 2013, she turned to writing when she found herself single and living alone for the first time at age 50. You can find her on her blog, thehungoverwidow.com, which offers empathy and dating advice. Her work has been published in THe New York Times' Modern Love column, The Huffington Post, Woman’s Day, Good Housekeeping, Elle Decor, and Reader’s Digest, among other publications. She is currently working on a memoir while trying to figure out how to program her garden lights. You can follow her on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

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Dating After Widowhood: Do Not Settle

by Debbie Weiss in Relationships and Dating
March 30, 2018June 19, 2020
The old-fashioned widow, the one that society pictures, is an asexual creature, draped in black, content to live on memories and a nice needlepoint project. But that’s the widow of yesteryear. Many of us are dating again looking for a ...
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Happier widow five years later

Widowhood: When You Don’t Feel like Yourself

by Debbie Weiss in Grief, Hope and Healing
February 22, 2018February 22, 2018
After my husband George died in 2013, I turned to the internet. There were fit widows, super parent widows, fund-raising widows and grateful widows. I did not find any widows like me who were drowning themselves in Manhattans, Mad Men and ...
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Recovering: Making Our Losses Part of Our Lives

by Debbie Weiss in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing
January 24, 2018January 25, 2018
  Recovering from grief takes time. I went to the movies by myself last week. It’s the first time I’ve ever done that. I couldn’t do it before because seeing the empty seat next to me was just too painful. ...
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