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The Kitties Can’t Come

February 7, 2020 by Kelley Lynn Leave a Comment

A large part of the story of Don and Kelley is our kitties. He loved animals, and over our years together, we had our little family of kitty cats. Isabelle and Ginger are over the rainbow bridge now, but I still have Autumn and Sammy, who we adopted together from a rescue shelter in NJ. These 2 cats have stayed with me all throughout losing Don to…

Filed Under: Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed and New Love Tagged With: widowhood and moving forward, moving, widowed new love, widowed memories, pets

Moving In and Scared to / of Death

January 31, 2020 by Kelley Lynn Leave a Comment

For the first 5 years after my husbands sudden death, I remained living in the NYC/NJ area, trying to put the pieces of my life back together again. I worked 17 odd jobs at a time to pay the bills and rent, had roommates I was resentful for having, drove a shitty car which I then sold and landed a second, slightly less-shitty car, which then died a…

Filed Under: Widowed Milestones Tagged With: moving

A Reset of the Mindset

August 17, 2019 by Bryan Martin Leave a Comment

So the feelings are the same, just as intense but not as often and demanding. I miss Clayton every day but the immediate sting when the thoughts rush forward is milder with time. My eyes still water each day but there are more days of laughter than tears. The dust has settled and now I’m feeling unsettled. A year ago I feared I would have to move…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed & Unmarried, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, LGBTQ+ Widowed Tagged With: moving, widower, young widow, milestones, healing for widowed, anxiety, sadness, widowed fears, LGBTQ Widowed, hope for widowed, Widowed Lonliness, widowed depression, widowhood and moving forward, unmarried widow, memories, widowed grief triggers

The Rifts of Loss

July 21, 2019 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Funny how different losses can create such different kinds of struggles for us. How different versions of loss can confuse us and blindside us in unexpected ways… even when we have dealt with loss before. I feel like I came home from our recent trip to Texas changed. In a good way. I feel like there were a lot of things that were rearranged…

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Dreaming Together

July 2, 2019 by Mike Welker 1 Comment

The death of your significant other can have a tendency to place your goals and dreams on hold.  You may have been planning a major purchase together…a new home, a vehicle, or even a major furniture or appliance buy.  It might have been that trip to the Grand Canyon or Alaska you had dreamed of for years. Kids? That was always a “sometime…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Widowed by Illness, Miscellaneous Tagged With: Long Term Illness, widowed dad, moving, widowed guilt, hope for widowed, widowed grief triggers, widower, milestones, Travel, widowhood and moving forward

Pieces of Me

June 16, 2019 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Right at this very moment, my new fiance Mike and daughter Shelby are visiting my late-fiance’s family in Texas. We have been here before. We spent Christmas with them in fact this past year. It still is so strange and surreal and beautiful to me how this all works. Mike and I stay in Drew’s old bedroom. Shelby sleeps in his sister’s old room.

Filed Under: Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Milestones Tagged With: healing for widowed, memories, moving

Why me? Why not ‘‘‘me?

April 18, 2019 by Bobby Atwal Leave a Comment

     After our income fell drastically, we moved into a one-bedroom apartment at a great location; it’s only a 20 minute walk to Anisha’s school.  However, it is not a big, character home like the ones her two best friends live in.  Recently she said, “I wish we lived in a big house like my friends.”  I can’t describe how hard the…

Filed Under: Widowed Parenting, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Widowed by Illness Tagged With: anxiety, widowed by cancer, widowed dad, moving, widowed anger, widowed fears, widowed depression, widowed grief triggers, healing for widowed

Scared to Remain, Scared to Change

February 22, 2019 by Kelley Lynn Leave a Comment

I have always hated change. Especially when something would change drastically or quickly, and I didnt have much choice in the matter. Like that time when I was about 7 years old and we went on a class field trip to a Maple Farm, and I somehow ended up with a gigantic ball of maple syrup in my long, curly, gorgeous hair. And then my dad, for…

Filed Under: Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Suddenly, Miscellaneous Tagged With: hope for widowed, milestones, healing for widowed, anxiety, Travel, sadness, widowhood and moving forward, memories, moving, widowed suddenly, widowed fears

Superbowl Sunday and a Brand New Life

February 1, 2019 by Kelley Lynn Leave a Comment

The year was 2005, and it was a cold day in February.  I looked out the window of my New Jersey apartment, which sat on the Hudson River. NYC looked back at me.  I put the coffee pot on, and started making the meatballs and sauce. My Nana Mary’s lasagna recipe, with bow tie pasta and meatballs and ribs on the side.  I had made it for Don the…

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Home is where the heart is

January 26, 2019 by Bryan Martin Leave a Comment

It’s taken me months and months to bring up the courage to go to dinner with a friend. Sounds crazy but she was Clayton’s favorite coworker and he is all we have in common. I knew it hit her hard when he passed and I knew she would want to talk about it. I guess that is just another layer of widowhood that others don’t understand – We want…

Filed Under: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed & Unmarried, Widowed Memories, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, LGBTQ+ Widowed Tagged With: widowed grief triggers, widower, young widow, milestones, anxiety, sadness, LGBTQ Widowed, Widowed Lonliness, widowed fears, memories, widowed depression, newly widowed, unmarried widow, moving

One Box

December 21, 2018 by Kelley Lynn Leave a Comment

It has been 7 and a half years since my beautiful husband Don Shepherd’s sudden death.  About 18 months ago, I found new and wonderful and beautiful love.  Somewhere in the first few months of the relationship with my new love, the topic of “Don’s things” came up. I think I was the one who brought it up. We were in my bedroom talking, or kissing,…

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New York State of Mind

December 5, 2018 by Kelley Lynn Leave a Comment

“I don’t have any reason, dont wanna waste more time Im in a New York state of mind…….”    Ah yes, Billy Joel had it right with that song.  Its been about 17 months since I left NYC, my second home, to move back to my home state of Massachusetts, finish my book, and see what comes next. I didnt expect to find love here in smalltown Mass, and…

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