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Thanksgiving

I Don’t Like Dessert

November 5, 2018 by Staci Sulin Leave a Comment

I don’t like dessert, so I will not be serving it with our Thanksgiving dinner. I have never really liked dessert. And, Mike didn’t like dessert either.   I wonder if that is a coincidence?   I think not.  I can tell you that I don’t think there are any coincidences in life, even when it comes to dessert.   I almost always pass on…

Filed Under: Widowed Holidays Tagged With: StaciSulin, widowed holidays, Thanksgiving, Holidays

Sitting Beside Grief

November 26, 2017 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Today I’m writing about a different side of grief… about being the one sitting beside someone who is grieving. About those moments watching a partner who is widowed go through their own pain. It’s no secret that Thanksgiving is a hard holiday for Mike. His wife died just a week before this holiday 3 years ago. Hitting the 3 year mark is hard…

Filed Under: Widowed Holidays, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Therapy Tagged With: sarah treanor, Thanksgiving, Holidays, support, 3 years, dating a widower

Revisiting the “First” Thanksgiving

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

Since coming back from Camp Widow Toronto, the upcoming holiday season has been on my mind a lot. I met so many new widows in Toronto. So many who are enduring the horror of their first holiday season without their person this year. As I sat down this morning to write, I began thinking, just what could I share that might resonate with anyone out…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Holidays, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: milestones, widow, sarah treanor, Thanksgiving, Holidays, loss, grief, coping, making it through, first

Grief Is A Funny Thing

October 9, 2017 by Wendy Saint-Onge Leave a Comment

Just when I find myself moving along a little more effortlessly and thinking, “I’ll be damned.  I think I’ve got this handled” … it happens.  WHAM!  Grief jumps out of nowhere and slams me so hard in the chest that I find myself gasping for breath and thinking, “What the fuck just happened there?” (Or, “what the heck just happened there?” …

Filed Under: Widowed Holidays, Widowed Community Tagged With: Las Vegas, Thanksgiving, wendy saint-onge, Ben The Titan, grief timetable, widow friends, Thankfulness

No Pie for Me, Thanks

November 26, 2015 by Stephanie Vendrell Leave a Comment

Somehow, my computer erased the post I’d been working on this week. I am NOT grateful for that. Grrrrr.   But what I’d planned to say will probably not come as a surprise. It’s Thanksgiving again and it’s just not an easy time for us widowed folk. No matter what else lovely we find in our lives in the strange after-world, it is painful to…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Holidays, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Suddenly Tagged With: widowed, widow, Thanksgiving, Holidays, grief, triggers, stephanie vendrell, suddenly widowed

Home for the Holidays

November 23, 2015 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

I can no longer say “one year ago, Megan did this”.  She’s been gone 369 days.  Today isn’t anything special or significant in the grand scheme of things, but it is interesting to me how the one year mark mentally appears to be a weight off of my shoulders in a sense.     I have experience now.  I’ve been through Thanksgiving,…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Holidays, Widowed by Illness Tagged With: widower, Long Term Illness, Mike Welker, widower with children, Thanksgiving, Holidays, Experiences

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