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Choices and Adjustments

September 1, 2024 by Kelley Lynn Leave a Comment

HI Friends. I feel like a broken record, but once again my apologies for not posting in here the last couple weeks. I really don’t completely forget on purpose. Its just that the last few weeks have been INCREDIBLY STRESSFUL and chaotic and soooo busy with moving, packing, getting into my new apartment, then unpacking, […]

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Suddenly Tagged With: widowed versus divorced, ex husband, new love, choices, sudden death

Moments that Honor Them

October 21, 2018 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

There are days when this new life feels so connected to past lives. Days when I swear I can feel the joy of all our loved ones radiating through from some other realm. Usually, it’s the days I let go of trying to make everything go right and perfect and remember to just live and have fun. In those moments I can feel their presence, and I can feel…

Filed Under: Widowed Parenting, Widowed and Healing, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Holidays, Miscellaneous Tagged With: making memories, new traditions, chapter two, honoring the dead, halloween, honoring loved ones, widowed with children, new love

I Wanted to Call You

August 26, 2018 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

It has been now 6 years since my fiance died. Very seldom these days do I have those moments when all I want to do is pick up the phone to call him and tell him about something that happened. Part of that is due to time, and probably part due to being able to share many of our favorite things with my new partner Mike. Having lost my mom when I was…

Filed Under: Widowed Memories, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: milestones, sarah treanor, remembering, new love, triggers, New Memories, wish you were here, phone call

It’s Not Guilt, It’s Sadness

August 10, 2018 by Kelley Lynn Leave a Comment

So it’s been 7 years since my beautiful husband left for work one morning, and never came home. Seven years since his shocking and sudden death. Seven years of living this life in the “after” of painful and life-changing loss. It’s a long time, and it isn’t. It’s forever, and it’s also ten seconds. In all of this time living with the death of my…

Filed Under: Widowed and Healing, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: guilt, sadness, widowed moving forward, widowhood and moving forward, moving forward, widowed sadness, new love for widowed, widowed new love, happiness, widowed guilt, kelley lynn, widowhood and guilt, new love, widowed happiness, widowed finding happiness again

Meeting Myself Where I Am

April 22, 2018 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

I’ve been thinking the past few days about Kelley’s Friday post. She talked about how people treat us when widowed, and the frustrations of often being treated like a five year old or misunderstood in some way. Or how people begin to act differently again once you find new love. That one I can definitely attest to. I wrote to her, saying how it…

Filed Under: Widowed and Healing, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Miscellaneous Tagged With: grief, living on, new love, photography, Expectations, 5+ years, artist, expressing grief, sarah treanor, loss

Opposing Teams

April 13, 2018 by Kelley Lynn Leave a Comment

I became a NY Yankee fan in the 1990s, when I went to NYC for college. It was the Joe Torre era, and baseball in NY was exciting. Going to multiple games at Yankee Stadium with college friends, it was tough not to fall in love with it. When I started dating Don, my late husband, he wasn’t really into baseball. He said it was boring, and asked me…

Filed Under: Widowed Memories, Widowed and New Love, Miscellaneous Tagged With: memories, widowed new love, new love, making memories, widowed memories, new love for widowed, sports

Different Camp, Different Me

March 23, 2018 by Kelley Lynn Leave a Comment

*Normally I write on Fridays, and although this post will appear here on Friday, I am writing it Wednesday evening, and setting it to publish Friday. This way I dont have to worry about finding a computer to post the blog while at the Marriott and busy with other things.     Headed to Camp Widow / Tampa tomorrow – returning Tuesday morning.

Filed Under: Widowed and New Love, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Community Tagged With: widowed new love, camp widow, new love, new love for widowed, widowed releasing ashes, scattering ashes

The Colors of Love

March 18, 2018 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

I was talking with a friend the other day about new love after being widowed and it got me reflecting on the idea. I ended up describing to her how my fiance and my now boyfriend are like two different colors of love. I really liked this idea the more I thought about it… There is no color in the spectrum that is better or worse, more or less,…

Filed Under: Widowed and New Love, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: sarah treanor, loss, grief, new love, love after loss, colors, loving again

Making the Most of Christmas

December 10, 2017 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Even now Five and a half years later There are days when I just want to disappear To run away from everything All the materialism of Christmas especially   Because no matter how hard I try No matter how many lights are on the house No matter how many ornaments are on the tree No matter how many Christmas songs are played So much is missing too…

Filed Under: Widowed and New Love, Widowed Holidays, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: loss, grief, new love, new traditions, Experiences, escape, building new memories, sarah treanor, Holidays

Damn the Torpedoes

October 24, 2017 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

The excitement of new. The knowing of strife. The frustration of sickness. The commitment for life. The determination to protect. The joy of more days. The newness of health. The fear it won’t stay. The sliver of hope. The knowledge of none. The witnessing a demise. The grief that begun.  We struggle, we cry. Anxious, we fear. As time marches…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Birthdays, Miscellaneous Tagged With: birthday, Mike Welker, new love, Metaphors, Second Chapter, Poem, No Instructions, Sayings, Moving On, widower

Coffee Rituals and the Unknown

March 19, 2017 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Early this morning, I woke up to the bed being empty next to me. It’s an ordinary Saturday, and I can hear Mike downstairs, tinkering around, packing up for a short backpacking trip. Eventually, I hear the stairs creak as he comes back up to the bedroom kiss me goodbye. These moments are always sensitive for me, since Drew left on a trip and never…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: widowhood and fear, sarah treanor, new love, changed by widowhood

Evolving

February 5, 2017 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Being that both Mike and I are both writers here, we do try to talk about our relationship as two widowed people, to share how this whole “chapter 2” thing can work. There are plenty of times this is awesome to write about – when we have things to share that show you how beautiful loving again can be. How beautiful it can be when two people…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: sarah treanor, problems, struggle, working together, loss, grief, new love, death, challenges, growth, learning, bereavement, widow, chapter 2

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