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The Safe Choice

August 14, 2018 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

I met Megan when I was only twenty-two years old.  I was fresh off of my active duty tour as a Marine, having been in the communications specialty for the past four years.  My “job” was, effectively, IT, just as it is now. I was ready to “settle down” already.  I had met a good woman, I was back home, with four years experience in my…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed by Illness, Miscellaneous Tagged With: Jobs, Employment, Careers, Safe, widower, Long Term Illness, Mike Welker, widower with children, Sacrifice, risk, choices

New Directions Fueled by the Past

March 4, 2018 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Today an exciting milestone has happened for me. One that runs deep, and is stitched with so many remnants of a past life and of every day since that I’ve fought for. Today I was accepted to be a contributor for a major photography agency that works in the book publishing industry. They work with publishing houses all over the world to help them…

Filed Under: Widowed and Healing, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Miscellaneous Tagged With: loss, grief, mindfulness, Change, choices, milestones, sarah treanor

A Choiceless Event

January 5, 2017 by Stephanie Vendrell Leave a Comment

I was sitting on the couch at my parents’ house in Virginia this week thinking about Mike. Just wondering how things would be different for me now were he still alive. Imagining him sitting next to me, trying to recapture the feeling of being in the presence of his energy.  So much changes for us in widowhood. Surely the hardest is losing that…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Emotions, Miscellaneous Tagged With: grief, choices, stephanie vendrell, life changes, young widow, widowed

One Risk at a Time

May 1, 2016 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

This was me, back in 2009. The week Drew and I began dating, we jumped out of a perfectly good airplane. It was a pivotal experience for me… and changed my beliefs in myself and how I dealt with risk and fear in my life. I have always been a cautious person, but every so often, I discovered after this day, I am able to make some pretty big leaps.

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Emotions, Miscellaneous Tagged With: living together, triggers, death, risk, choices, moving forward, fear, moving in together, widow, new steps, loss, living again, grief, bravery, new love

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