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widowed loneliness

To Urn or Not to Urn

October 27, 2018 by Bryan Martin Leave a Comment

We still haven’t been able to put Clayton to rest. His mother’s stroke has resulted in her having to move near relatives and figure out a new life. Until then, Clayton sits in a (beautiful) Urn in our apartment. At first it was unsettling, having to look at a container that holds the dust of the person you want to hold the most. You want to…

Filed Under: Widowed Emotions, LGBTQ+ Widowed Tagged With: widowed loneliness, widowhood and guilt, LGBTQ Widowed, bryan martin

The Never Ending Story

September 20, 2018 by Alison Miller Leave a Comment

Is loneliness the never-ending story of widowhood? Does it end if we find another chance at Love? Does the loneliness exist, even then Because the loneliness is specific to that person, your person, who died? Is there ever a moment again When a widow’s heart feels that lightness of being, Once felt? Or is the heaviness, the ache, the sadness of…

Filed Under: Widowed Emotions Tagged With: widowed sadness, alison miller, widowed loneliness, expressions of grief

The Only and the Already

August 25, 2018 by Bryan Martin Leave a Comment

There are minutes, hours, days that seem to fly by while seconds seem to drag on forever. It has only and already been 4 months since Tin has passed – only and already. For those that don’t lose their “person”, it is hard to explain that time’s guidelines begin to bend in ways we never knew. Good days go fast. Bad days go slow. Yet the next…

Filed Under: Widowed Emotions, LGBTQ+ Widowed, Miscellaneous Tagged With: widowed loneliness, widowhood and guilt, expressions of grief, time, Regrets, LGBTQ Widowed, bryan martin

History Repeats Itself All Too Often Too Soon

July 7, 2018 by Bryan Martin Leave a Comment

Since losing Tin, I look to each new week as a new horizon that will bring brighter days. This is my fourth post and I thought, maybe by now, my blog would have small sparks of settlement in the chaos. I guess it is good to hope but bad to assume. A very fine line that I often fail to recognize these days. I’ll keep the faith that those brighter…

Filed Under: Widowed Anniversaries, Widowed Holidays, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, LGBTQ+ Widowed Tagged With: ashes, bryan martin, widowed loneliness, anniversary, LGBQT Widowed, approaching anniversary, 4th of july, goodbyes, widowed depression, widowed sadness

My Husband Died and All I Got Was This Lousy Book

April 6, 2018 by Kelley Lynn Leave a Comment

In July of 2011, my husband died, and I died too. Well, that version of me died. About an hour after his death, after I had made the phone calls to immediate family and a few close friends – from a random bathroom inside the ER part of the hospital, sitting on the toilet after having just thrown up from shock – I sent my first Facebook status…

Filed Under: Widowed Emotions, Widowed Therapy Tagged With: sadness, widowed sadness, widowed loneliness, widowhood and anger, writing, anger, widowed writing, lonely, loneliness

Call Me if You Need ANYTHING

January 23, 2018 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Up until about age 30 or so, I was a fairly social creature.  I made friends easily, whether it be through work, spending weekends in the woods with groups, or wrenching on cars.  Through my twenties, not only did Megan and I make “couples” friends, but I had my own as well.  Friends that Megan appreciated herself, but really, they were…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Emotions, Miscellaneous Tagged With: Hermit, Recluse, Calls, widower, Socailizing, friends, Mike Welker, widower with children, widowed loneliness, relationships, loneliness, cliches

Maybe I’ll Get A Cat

July 31, 2017 by Wendy Saint-Onge Leave a Comment

I’m finding it a bit lonely, this whole “being alone” thing.  Back in my real life I often craved alone time.  Just one hour of peace and quiet was like winning the lottery, because the last time I had such a thing was somewhere around 1992. The last couple of decades have been filled with career and intermingled with babies, followed by…

Filed Under: Widowed and New Love, Widowed Emotions, Widowed by Illness Tagged With: dating, widowed loneliness, dating after widowhood, peace and quiet, lonely, loneliness, wendy saint-onge, Ben The Titan, cancer, widow alone, widowed by cancer, life alone

The Loneliness of Grief

November 13, 2015 by Rebecca Collins Leave a Comment

There have been a few instances over the past week or two where I’ve opened up to people and shared a grief-related feeling only to have them either change the subject or ignore me. Approaching the 2 years and 4 month mark, I’m very familiar with this experience.  As soon as that initial period of sympathy expires, whether it be a few weeks or a…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Community, Widowed by Suicide Tagged With: young widow, widowed loneliness, loneliness, widow friends, rebecca collins, aussie widow, suicide widow

Going Walter Mitty-ish…

July 7, 2015 by Alison Miller Leave a Comment

These are the facts I’ve accepted recently: Life without Chuck is, if I’m honest about it, painful and traumatizing.In spite of the fact that I fully engage with people daily, involve myself in activities, and travel as a life-style, which means I’m continually in new situations and places, I don’t feel invested in this new life at all. My…

Filed Under: Widowed Emotions Tagged With: widowed loneliness, lonely, loneliness, Living in the past, missing romance, widow-speak

Nero’s Cry

May 11, 2015 by Tricia Bratton Leave a Comment

This week, on an animal sanctuary in Southern Spain, I am surrounded by rock, and the nude, bare earth echoes the inner emptiness I feel. In England, all that green and growing doesn’t match my insides. Here, this rock, this heat, this rugged blend of pine and desert wildflower, poking up from parched earth, speaks to my spirit. Here, amongst this…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Suddenly Tagged With: widowed suddenly, widow, widowed loneliness, widowed growth, tricia bratton, widowed adventures

In the Night

May 1, 2015 by Kelley Lynn Leave a Comment

Last week, some of you may have noticed that I did not write a post in here. I would like to aapologizefor my lack of blog posting one week ago Friday. However, the reason I could not post in here is quite unique and different – I couldn’t post because I spent the entire overnight in an empty building, alone, at the college campus I work at,…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Suddenly Tagged With: widowed suddenly, widow, kelley lynn, widowed loneliness, widowed mishaps, widowed missing him

The Chill

February 20, 2015 by Kelley Lynn Leave a Comment

It is 4 degrees tonight in NYC. Four. There is a wind chill factor of negative “what the f**#k???”, and I can feel the missing of my husband inside every aching joint and bone. The missing of him sits in my veins tonight like ice – making my eyelids and my teeth and my fingertips hurt. Really. There are sometimes days or weeks that will go by…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Suddenly Tagged With: widow, widowed loneliness, kelly lynn, widowed missing him, widowed suddenly

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