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Surviving Middle-Aged Widowhood

http://survivingmiddle-agedwidowhood.blogspot…

A blog devoted to exploring the life and challenges of a middle-aged widow who gets divorced after remarrying.

• Added on: Jan 24th, 2009
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Author: Andrea
• Listed in: Death & Dying Relationships
• Tags: divorce financial problems single parenting moving forward grief and loss widowhood

Recent Posts

• Finally, A Loss I\'M Not Crying Over!

  Posted on Sunday December 13th, 2009 at 08:16 in employment, consumerism, christmas, endings, financial crisis, parenting in widowhood, lessons learned from death, stability structure

  Last night was my final shift at the big box store. I have worked there eight months, yet not one person said goodbye to me or acknowledged my leaving. Pretty sad. I have always felt invisible working at the store. There are 100 employees and so ...

• Hungry Holidays Ho Ho Ho

  Posted on Saturday December 12th, 2009 at 12:50 in holidays, comfort food, financial crisis, scrimping, collective family grief, secondary grief losses, worry anxiety, foreclosure selling house

  It was my son's 17th birthday this week. I was unable to get him anything. That fact has broken my heart. He asked me for $5.00 to add to the $5.00 he had so he could look for a winter coat at the Goodwill store. His search was unsuccessful. Whi...

• Snowstorm

  Posted on Friday December 11th, 2009 at 21:51 in depression, moving, financial crisis, inner turmoil, children's grief, complicated bereavement, collective family grief, multiple losses

  We have been holed up because of that horrific snowstorm that swept the Midwest this week. It all started Monday when the boys and I left late for the 200 mile drive to the new house/town/school. This was because it was my oldest son's 17th birthday...

• Enough is Enough!

  Posted on Monday December 7th, 2009 at 12:35 in relationships, communication, divorce, regrets, complicated bereavement, life moving on after divorce

  The light bulb has gone off in my head that the past couple years of self-flogging, berating, beating up on and blaming myself for the divorce are pointless and futile. I have certainly suffered, well beyond the realm of what could be considered nor...

• New Self-Image

  Posted on Sunday December 6th, 2009 at 20:49 in divorce, acceptance, going forward, living with grief, identity crisis, grief loss, complicated bereavement

  I started referring and identifying myself as Middle in the Widow shortly after my husband died. I was picking produce from an apple bin when my hand brushed past that of an elderly woman shopping in the store with a group of residents from a nearby...

• I Had to Heal Myself First

  Posted on Sunday December 6th, 2009 at 19:13 in divorce, healing, going forward, complicated bereavement, different kinds of pain, symptoms of grief loss, widow vs. divorcee, lack of understanding

  In July, 2008 before hanging up on me, Husband #2 managed to bark out at that he had "refiled" the divorce he had originally filed six months prior. At that moment it was like being sucker punched in the gut when I was already on the ground writhing...

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