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Widening the Gap

February 9, 2020 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker 1 Comment

This past week, Sarah and I marked our five-year anniversary as two widows, together in a relationship.  Meeting at Camp Widow in 2015, we found ourselves just simply “connected” somehow…so much so that we were actually asked if we were siblings at one point that weekend. But, this isn’t a story of how we met, or even of the five years…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Anniversaries, Widowed Milestones Tagged With: widowed parenting, widowed dad, widowed new love, widowhood and traditions, widowhood and wedding anniversaries, widowed guilt, dating, widower, milestones, widowhood and moving forward, memories

What’s hard for Two Widowed People in Love: Card Canceling

October 20, 2019 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Today Mike and I are writing together about a topic that our Friday writer Kelley asked about recently. Most people assume it is easier to be in a relationship with another widowed person when you are widowed. And it’s true, a lot of things are simplified when you understand each other’s loss. Kelley was curious to know what some of the specific…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed and New Love Tagged With: widower, young widow, widowhood and moving forward, widowed new love, dating

I Didn’t Die

October 6, 2019 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

So, Sarah wrote last week about my leaving for a work trip.  It was the first time I have done so since we’ve met.  Sure, I’ve left for a day or two here and there to go backpacking, but being required by my job to board a jet to Chicago for three days is, quite obviously, a bit more of a trigger for her.  Especially when it’s a trigger…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Suddenly, Widowed by Illness, Miscellaneous Tagged With: widowed new love, widowed suddenly, dating, widowed fears, widowed grief triggers, widower, milestones, anxiety, Travel, Long Term Illness

Leaving on a Jet Plane… Don’t Die

September 29, 2019 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

It seems like there is always something in grief you are experiencing for the first time. After seven years as a widow, I would have thought that I had already gone through almost every “first”. This week though, I discovered another first I had yet to go through, and it’s had my emotions all over the place.  Tomorrow, my new partner Mike…

Filed Under: Widowed and New Love, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Suddenly Tagged With: widowed grief triggers, milestones, anxiety, widowed suddenly, dating, widowed fears

Fan Girl of Love

September 23, 2019 by Staci Sulin Leave a Comment

Dating is not something that I decided to take on lightly.  This November, Mike will have been dead for three years.  Not that this really matters in terms of dating. Or does it?  It doesn’t.  But, the fact that I mentioned it means that to me it is significant in some way.  I wish I could explain this more sufficiently, but I can’t.  I…

Filed Under: Widowed and New Love Tagged With: dating

Morbid Advantage

September 22, 2019 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Today is Sarah’s birthday.  Not Megan’s, not Drew’s. It’s not Mother or Father’s day, or an anniversary.  It’s a day where the focus is squarely on her, and not shared with those who are no longer here.  Or, at least it’s not supposed to be.   The rub of it is that I’m a widower.  Sarah’s a widow. Damn near every experience…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Birthdays, Widowed Holidays, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: dating, widower, milestones, widowhood and moving forward, memories, widowed dad, widowed new love, envy and widowhood, widowed holidays, widowed guilt, widowed fears, birthdays, widowed grief triggers

Ostracized Honesty

September 21, 2019 by Bryan Martin Leave a Comment

It’s time I dive into a topic that is always at the heart of gay men dating – HIV/AIDS. Growing up I watched as the disease came forth, took lives and drove the world to treat the LGBTQ+ community worse than ever. There was fear of being accused and harmed and there was (and still is) fear of contracting the disease. From my biology background,…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed & Unmarried, Widowed Memories, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, LGBTQ+ Widowed, Widowed by Illness Tagged With: widowed depression, Long Term Illness, unmarried widow, widowed anger, widowed grief triggers, dating, widower, young widow, milestones, anxiety, sadness, LGBTQ Widowed, Widowed Lonliness, widowed fears, memories

Hello Goodbye

August 27, 2019 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Since the spring of 2015, I have written here every Tuesday (well, “most” every Tuesday).  I’ve shared my story from just a few months after losing Megan, to now. Having four plus years of what can only amount to a public “journal” has been both surreal and incredibly healing.   Oftentimes, it’s hard to recall just how “raw” I…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed and Healing, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Community Tagged With: camp widow, widower, milestones, healing for widowed, widowhood and moving forward, widowed parenting, widowed dad, widowed new love, dating

Hola Amigo

June 18, 2019 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Hey man, Well, it’s that time of year again.  I’m here in Texas, with Sarah and Shelby, to celebrate you.  This is what, year…five for me? That seems crazy. We went to your grave today, and it’s I guess looking good as ever.  The little heart shaped rocks, the trinkets…the helicopters; they’re all still there. Your mom had some…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Anniversaries, Widowed Holidays, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Signs from Loved One, Miscellaneous Tagged With: widowed death anniversary, widowhood and traditions, friends, widowed holidays, widower, dating, widowed signs from our loved ones, milestones, Travel, widowhood and moving forward, memories, family

When Things are Hard …

June 7, 2019 by Kelley Lynn Leave a Comment

Things are hard.  Life is hard.  Sometimes I am convinced that life is much harder for some than for others.  Sometimes it feels like I can never get a break.  Sometimes it feels like I will always struggle and things will always be really hard, and that is just how my life will be.  I dont know.  None of this is fact.  Just feelings. …

Filed Under: Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed and Healing, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Community Tagged With: friends, dating, camp widow, widowed fears, widowed depression, widowed grief triggers, healing for widowed, anxiety, sadness, family

Outsider

May 14, 2019 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

A month from today, Sarah, Shelby, and I will be hitting the road for Texas.  It is time for our annual “Drewfest” weekend, where Drew’s closest friends gather to remember him, celebrate him, and in general, have a fun time like the “good old days”. Personally, this will be my fifth Drewfest.  I’ve been part of them since 2015, a few…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: memories, widowed new love, family, widowhood and traditions, friends, widowed guilt, dating, widower, widowhood and moving forward

Things That Matter

April 26, 2019 by Kelley Lynn Leave a Comment

Since becoming an involentary widow almost 8 years ago, I have changed in many positive ways.  I am more empathetic.  I am more sympathetic.  I am less judgemental of people’s lives and situations and circumstances.  I listen better.  I stop to talk with people more.  I find more meaning and beauty in very tiny things.  I exist in the moment…

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