15 years ago Wash and I built a small LOTR Lego set for fun together.
Tomorrow is my 14th wedding anniversary. And this will be my 11th without him.
I’m building for us both.
For his Memory.
He’s already off in the Undying Lands, the Havens.
I seem to be stuck on a Very Long Journey myself, still There and Back Again.
#Widowhood
Some of you may know that I've been a widow for almost a year now. I've learned more than I care to know about widowhood, and now I know more about condolences. Words matter. These are my thoughts.
#Grief #Widowhood #Writing
https://constantcommoner.substack.com/p/when-you-feel-the-need-to-talk-to
🧑💻Don't miss this week's #CPCCGWebinar - Thursday 26 January at 13:00
@VanWinkleZachary will discuss his analysis of the cost of #widowhood for #mentalhealth and #economic wellbeing.
Register to join us free: http://www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/full_events_calendar/731/CPC_CG_Webinar__Zachary_Van_Winkle
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Queen bee: Blerta Basholli's HIVE (ZGJOI, 2021) is a sweet but stinging tale of hope about a war-widowed apiarist who "leads the rebuilding her broken Kosovan community with a new enterprise"
#Kosovo #Patriarchy #Widowhood #Beekeeping
https://projectedfigures.com/2023/01/10/hive-zgjoi-2021/
#Kosovo #patriarchy #widowhood #beekeeping
Older people who talk with friends more often throughout the day tend to be happier, especially widows.
#NICHDimpact #widowhood #aging #friendship #mentalhealth
Second Christmas without you 💔
Words are failing right now. It's a difficult time. People close to me are asking me to be merry but I just can't.
RT @widow_waiting@twitter.com
Day 42 of #widowhood was busy. Tidying & sorting - trying to regain some semblance of control over the chaos in the house. Dealing with the callous incompetence of @DWPgovuk@twitter.com. Taking kids to bereavement support appointments at the hospice. Sobbing in the carpark (me, not them)…
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/widow_waiting/status/1604999278207946754
I saw a really impactful TedTalk back in my early-mid years of #widowhood, when #grief had evolved into #depression and #anxiety, and tho I had dealt with those all my life, nothing prepared me for the trifecta.
I crawled out and was stronger. Doesn't mean I'm glad it happened but I'm glad I found this:
Follows is a link to a talk by Andrew Solomon on Youtube.
#widowhood #grief #depression #anxiety
Emerging from a bad bout of flu that took me through the third sadversary of loosing my soulmate on the 2nd December 2019 - it hurts a lot. #grief #widowhood
@porcelainkitty3218 Same here. I've lived almost half a century but still find myself being buffeted by forces outside my control. 😞 #ChronicIllness #widowhood
RT @widow_waiting@twitter.com
Day 27 of #widowhood. Small wins. First night alone with the kids went okay. Got some chores done while a pal helped w/ the wee ones. A special outing for 4. Utterly exhausted now though.
#WidowedYoung
#TerminalCancer
#NGAW22
#Grief
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/widow_waiting/status/1599526197305569280
#widowhood #widowedyoung #terminalcancer #ngaw22 #grief
@TishIncePoet
"I know you're proud of me. I'm proud of me too. Almost finished the book 4 years later, & still indebted to you for helping me get through this."
- Good Grief…Please! ! - A Dialogue with Death and Life #widow #Widowhood #griefbook #Griefjourney
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Today would have been my late husband's 69th birthday and I got dem ol' kozmic blues again Mama!
#Widowhood sucks
Today would have been my late husband's 69th birthday and I got dem ol' kozmic blues again Mama!
#Widowhood sucks
RT @widow_waiting@twitter.com
First night in our bed without him. It’s incomprehensible that he’s gone for good. So very grateful I’ve got our 6 month old for company.
Day 1 of #widowhood done.
Feeling strangely numb.
#AnticipatoryGrief
#TerminalCancer
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/widow_waiting/status/1590133104127377408
#widowhood #anticipatorygrief #terminalcancer
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#Widowhood - The state of being a widow; the time during which a woman is widow; also, rarely, the state of being a widower.
What are good suggestions for getting through the first anniversary without a mate, that require neither inebriation nor family nor a lot of people? #mourning #jahrzeit #widowhood
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