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Category Relationships and Dating

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Sharing that I have moved on

by Laurel Snook in Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Relationships and Dating, Widowhood Journey
July 2, 2023
I have been struggling on how to tell my in laws that I have moved on. It is not something that is easy to just say. Today I saw them and didn't say anything.   I wish I could just ...
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The Love of a Lifetime

by Katherine Billings-Palmer in Grief, Hope and Healing, Relationships and Dating, Widowhood Journey
July 2, 2023July 2, 2023
As the sixth anniversary of Rick's death approaches, I realize I’ve had many shifts in my attitude about how I view my life here alone. For about the first two years, my whole identity was that of a widow. I ...
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Grief Tiredness

by Laurel Snook in Grief, Health and Wellness, Hope for Widows Foundation, Relationships and Dating, Widowhood Journey
June 25, 2023
On Monday I said goodbye to my dog. The best thing for her but still ripped out my heart. I didn't want to go home that night to a house without her in it. Feeling exhausted knowing the tiredness of ...
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You deserve to be happy.

by Laurel Snook in Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Relationships and Dating, Widowhood Journey
June 18, 2023
Happy ever after is what we thought we were getting when we got married. The only problem is we did not get our happy endings. And we started our widowhood journeys. While we all joined this club for the same ...
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Old fears 

by Laurel Snook in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Relationships and Dating, Widowhood Journey
June 11, 2023
I always feared Matt dying. It always seemed irrational until it wasn't. I dreamed about him dying. Then one day I got the call that I feared the most making all those fears valid in my head. If I had ...
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Fear: Grief’s Constant Companion

by Dorothy Swanson in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Health and Wellness, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Mental Health, Relationships and Dating, Widowhood Journey
June 5, 2023June 26, 2023
Fear: Grief's Constant Companion The life of widowhood and journey of grief seem to be inseparably paired with fear. Fear is grief’s constant companion. Fear of an unknown future. Fear that I have lost my identity. Fear of facing the ...
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Time heals wounds it just takes years

by Laurel Snook in Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Relationships and Dating, Widowhood Journey
June 4, 2023
The hits keep coming my dog who I have had for 13 years is starting to have issues. She has been with me through it all. Meeting Matt, falling in love, getting married, and him dying. Through it all she ...
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Moving on with my ghost

by Laurel Snook in Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Relationships and Dating, Widowhood Journey
May 21, 2023
Moving on after the losses we face come with challenges that dating did not have before. There is the ghost in the room. The ghost of the life you lived before.   My ghost is all over my home in ...
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The Cruelty Is The Point

by Joyce Hishaw-Willis in Grief, Relationships and Dating, Widowhood Journey
May 14, 2023
I thought everything was fine, until it wasn’t. Shortly after my husband passed away nearly two years ago, I realized that envy from family members is a very real thing, and the depth of that envy is more than I ...
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Where Did Everyone Go?

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
May 9, 2023May 9, 2023
Not too long into my own widowhood journey, I noticed something that happens once the newness of our loss has worn off for everyone but us: many of my friends, most of my lovely, wonderful support group had all but ...
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