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Pre-survivor’s Guilt

April 18, 2017 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

It’s Monday night.  After a long holiday weekend, and a single day of work, I’m off for a week.  Sarah and I are traveling to Texas tomorrow, to meet with her friends and family and celebrate the memory of Drew, as they’ve done yearly since his death. The loose ends are tied up at work.  Our bags are packed and we’re into the impatient…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed by Illness Tagged With: parents, Caretaking, Survivor's Guilt, widower, Long Term Illness, Mike Welker, Experience, illness, Hospitals

I have to go home

November 24, 2016 by Stephanie Vendrell Leave a Comment

Well, the deed is done. Dad is in a home. But it’s not his home. We are crippled with sadness. Coming back to the house afterwards reminded me so much how it felt at my house after Mike died. Like the energy was sucked up into a vortex and we were left with this black emptiness.We know in our hearts no one will be able to give him the kind of care…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: care giving, family, widowed, grief, stephanie vendrell, parents

Home-Base

July 19, 2016 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Megan and I bought our home in June of 2005.  For nine years, it was “our” home.  I had the outdoor spaces…lawn care, gardening, the garage, and landscaping were all mine to take care of and shape into something I enjoyed.  Megan had the inside.  Knick-knacks and decorations, paint colors, organization, and general decor were hers.    …

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed and Healing, Miscellaneous Tagged With: parents, in-laws, merging lives, widower, Mike Welker, widower with children, Home, life, moving forward

Spinning the Wheel and Moving Forward

July 12, 2016 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

I’ve followed a somewhat standard path in my adult years.  Megan and I met in 2002, married and bought a house in 2005, and had Shelby in 2007.  Notwithstanding her illness and the extra events associated with it, we had followed a fairly “textbook” sequence of events.  We were effectively playing the “Game of Life”, spinning the…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed and Healing, Miscellaneous Tagged With: life, moving forward, parents, in-laws, compromises, widower, Mike Welker, widower with children

Meet the Parents

June 28, 2016 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Sarah, Shelby and I are in Texas this week for the 4th annual get-together of her and Drew’s closest friends.  This is the second time I’ve attended, and Shelby’s first.  I’ve met these people before.  They are all already friends of mine, albeit not as close as Sarah is to them, but friends nonetheless.   There seem to be a lot of…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed and New Love, Widowed by Illness Tagged With: Long Term Illness, sarah treanor, widower with children, second chapters, parents, cemetery, widower

Natural Selection

October 6, 2015 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

If you have followed Sarah and I’s writing over these months, you know that we’ve now met each other’s families.  She traveled to Ohio a few weeks ago, for the first time, and upon arriving, we made sure to arrange time to specifically visit both my parents and Megan’s parents.     Terri, Megan’s mother, has sadly had to watch two of…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: widower, sarah treanor, Mike Welker, widower with children, new love, Anxious Moments, parents, in-laws, Meetings

Turning A New Page

September 13, 2015 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

I am sitting in my hotel room in Toronto writing… trying to find the best and most concise way to describe all that has happened in the past seven days of my life. I say “most concise” because I’ve got a bag to pack, and many wonderful widow friends to still say farewells to before leaving Camp Widow Toronto. In a nutshell, the past week has…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed Milestones Tagged With: moving, widow, sarah treanor, parents, inlaws

A New Addition

September 8, 2015 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Just a few days ago, Sarah arrived here in Ohio to visit for the first time.  This is something we have both been waiting months for.  As our relationship grew over the phone and Skype, the discussion arose on when she would finally meet Shelby, my parents, and Megan’s parents.   When we first discussed, we agreed that now, in September, she…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: widower, Mike Welker, widower with children, new love, Anxious Moments, parents, in-laws, Meetings

The Fields of Tomorrow

July 5, 2015 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

New love and all the complicated, bizarre beauty of it has become the theme of late in my life and in my writing. A woman who read my blog post last week about Mike coming to visit and meet my in-laws for the first time, sent me a note about just this. Only her story is from another perspective. With her permission, I am sharing a bit of her story…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed and New Love Tagged With: cemetery, dating, widow, sarah treanor, new love, sacred places, parents, in-laws

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