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Unshared Milestone

August 7, 2018 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Yesterday would have been Megan and I’s thirteenth wedding anniversary.  It has been the fourth since she died. We didn’t quite make it to a decade together as husband and wife, but we at least got to have the experience of buying our own home and becoming parents.  We got to have a formal wedding, with a service in a church and a catered…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Anniversaries, Widowed Milestones, Widowed by Illness, Miscellaneous Tagged With: Mike Welker, widower with children, Remembrance, anniversary, Wedding, milestone, Date, widower, Long Term Illness

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November 28, 2017 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

I’m on the other side of the three year mark at this point.  I can watch a movie where an actor is hospitalized, and not have to turn it off.  I can hear a song that reminds me of Megan, and get a little choked up, then laugh it off.  I can even pull all of our holiday decorations out from storage, observe the ornaments with Megan and I’s…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Miscellaneous Tagged With: missing, Trigger, Reminder, widower, Unexplainable, Mike Welker, widower with children, loss, grief, time, Event, milestone

A Letter to My Younger Self

June 12, 2016 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Dear Younger Self, Today is the four year anniversary of that horrible day… and you are just beginning on this ride of horrors. I wish I could have been there at the beginning. From here, there is so much I can tell you about what you’ll be facing in the years ahead, and about what wondrous things will unfold, too. I wanted to take a moment to…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: loss, grief, lessons, milestone, advice, four years, letter to younger self, reflecting back, four years of grief, widow, sarah treanor

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