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Does widowhood have an expiration date?

by Cindy Schriver in Grief, Relationships and Dating, Widowhood Journey
April 12, 2025April 13, 2025
My husband died 14 years ago, and I still refer to myself as a widow.   To be honest, I had never thought much of it. I AM a widow. Yet when one of my online tutoring students asked, "Well, ...
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One Great Love

by Katherine Billings-Palmer in Grief, Relationships and Dating, Widowhood Journey
April 1, 2025
In the eight years since Rick’s been gone, I’ve tried dating and managed to find three men who were potential partners. Yet, here I sit alone again, mulling over what went wrong with each budding relationship. One moved out of ...
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Still Emerging

by Layla Beth Munk in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Mental Health, Relationships and Dating, Widowhood Journey
March 23, 2025March 23, 2025
It typically takes a butterfly 7-14 days to emerge from its chrysalis. I am past the seven-year mark now and still trying to hatch. Before I met Bret, I was a completely different person than I am now. And that's ...
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How ‘Romantasy’ Has Helped Me With the Grief

by Layla Beth Munk in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Relationships and Dating, Widowhood Journey
February 20, 2025
I am an avid reader, and I have been since I was small, when I first learned that the weird little markings on the pages of a book could magically tell my brain a story. Multiple genres could be considered ...
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Ice Castles

by Cassie Dockter-Reeves in Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Relationships and Dating, Widowhood Journey
January 26, 2025
Seven years. Seven years ago today you changed my life forever. I wouldn’t trade a second of any of it even if the outcome was the same. Not the hard moments and not the sad moments, all of them meant ...
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Ample Time to Grieve

by Layla Beth Munk in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Health and Wellness, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Mental Health, Relationships and Dating, Solo Parenting, Widowhood Journey
November 11, 2024
If I had one bit of advice - and possibly a magic wand to help make it so - I would advise new widows to make sure that they give themselves ample time to grieve, post-loss. Of course, this goes ...
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Nothing Left Unsaid

by Cassie Dockter-Reeves in Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Relationships and Dating, Widowhood Journey
October 30, 2024November 2, 2024
Tomorrow is Halloween. It was my husband‘s favorite holiday (and Thanksgiving, because of the food). He loved dressing up and putting on a show, he always had. It brought him to life. It’s what he loved so much about being ...
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Widowhood: Nobody Wants to Talk About It

by Layla Beth Munk in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Health and Wellness, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Mental Health, Relationships and Dating, Solo Parenting, Widowhood Journey
October 20, 2024
Rejections are a part of any writer's life and as a writer, I've seen my fair share. If I want to basically guarantee a rejection though, all I have to do is submit a piece about widowhood. It doesn't matter ...
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Widowed by Bipolar Disorder with Psychosis

by Cassie Dockter-Reeves in Grief, Health and Wellness, Mental Health, Relationships and Dating, Widowhood Journey
August 3, 2024August 3, 2024
This is my first blog for this website and my first blog as a widow. I decided to share something that I wrote on the last day of May, which was Mental Health Awareness Month. I think it’s an important ...
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That One Thing…

by Layla Beth Munk in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Mental Health, Relationships and Dating, Widowhood Journey
July 22, 2024
Over the years, in various blogs, I have shared that my late husband, Bret, wasn't exactly the easiest person to be around. Oh, sure he could absolutely be the life of the party. But at home, with no one new ...
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