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Widening the Gap

February 9, 2020 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker 1 Comment

This past week, Sarah and I marked our five-year anniversary as two widows, together in a relationship.  Meeting at Camp Widow in 2015, we found ourselves just simply “connected” somehow…so much so that we were actually asked if we were siblings at one point that weekend. But, this isn’t a story of how we met, or even of the five years…

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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…

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No more Second Fiddles

February 2, 2020 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

A few weeks ago, Mike and I wrote a joint post together about some of the challenges of two widowed people dating. The metaphor that we mentioned, which is a common one, was of being second fiddle… the idea that each of us sometimes feels “second” to the person that came before us in our partner’s lives. It’s a bit unavoidable now and…

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What’s hard for Two Widowed People in Love: Two Second Fiddles

January 19, 2020 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

A while ago, Mike and I wrote this post together about some of the things that are harder about being two widowed people in a new relationship. In that post, we talked about how we aren’t ever able to really pull the widow card on one another, because essentially – it’s canceled out. We’ve both been through an equally hard pain.  We have…

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Knowing Ahead

January 5, 2020 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

The holiday season is over.  Starting in early November, every year, I begin pondering Megan’s death at an elevated rate, leading up to the anniversary of it.  With Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s Day all occurring in the weeks just after, it’s two months of absolute stress, that nobody seems to understand, including myself.  My…

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What’s hard for Two Widowed People in Love: Card Canceling

October 20, 2019 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Today Mike and I are writing together about a topic that our Friday writer Kelley asked about recently. Most people assume it is easier to be in a relationship with another widowed person when you are widowed. And it’s true, a lot of things are simplified when you understand each other’s loss. Kelley was curious to know what some of the specific…

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Sudden Death Shadows

October 13, 2019 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Well, I made it through the long three days of Mike being out of town for work the other week. He made sure to text or call at every turn so that I knew he was safe – which helped so much to keep the panic at bay a bit. So no, he didn’t die. Much to my relief. Although I will say, the whole ordeal of having to cope with my new person on a work trip…

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I Didn’t Die

October 6, 2019 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

So, Sarah wrote last week about my leaving for a work trip.  It was the first time I have done so since we’ve met.  Sure, I’ve left for a day or two here and there to go backpacking, but being required by my job to board a jet to Chicago for three days is, quite obviously, a bit more of a trigger for her.  Especially when it’s a trigger…

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Morbid Advantage

September 22, 2019 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Today is Sarah’s birthday.  Not Megan’s, not Drew’s. It’s not Mother or Father’s day, or an anniversary.  It’s a day where the focus is squarely on her, and not shared with those who are no longer here.  Or, at least it’s not supposed to be.   The rub of it is that I’m a widower.  Sarah’s a widow. Damn near every experience…

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Engagement from Two Sides

September 8, 2019 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Today is a beginning of sorts. For the past few years, Mike and I have written for Soaring Spirits on separate days and will be moving to sharing Sundays now. For anyone who doesn’t know our story, we are both widowed and now engaged to one another. We met in Tampa at Camp Widow in 2015 and have been dating since. The idea to share a day seemed…

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Something New

September 1, 2019 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Some of you who read here often might know that our Tuesday writer Mike and I are both widowed and in a relationship together. For the past few years, often times we are found to be writing about finding love again after being widowed and what it’s like to be in a new relationship as widowed people – both the good stuff and the hard stuff about…

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Hello Goodbye

August 27, 2019 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Since the spring of 2015, I have written here every Tuesday (well, “most” every Tuesday).  I’ve shared my story from just a few months after losing Megan, to now. Having four plus years of what can only amount to a public “journal” has been both surreal and incredibly healing.   Oftentimes, it’s hard to recall just how “raw” I…

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