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widowhood and wedding anniversaries

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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Semiversary

August 6, 2019 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

I wish I could have sat down to write this morning and repeated my often-stated sentiment that I don’t have anything to write about…and that’s OK.  I had hoped that today, of all days, is something that doesn’t affect me as much any more, because “time” and all. Even if I thought about Megan more today, it wouldn’t throw my day off…

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Paradox

February 5, 2019 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Anniversaries are, in general, a prompt for looking back.  They’re an annual reminder to be reminded of the past. While oftentimes, an anniversary is also a milestone, it still remains that, simply put, an anniversary measures the passage of time.   They don’t really MEAN anything to widows.  Our person is neither more, nor less dead on…

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Being Dead Is Not A Happy Anniversary

October 26, 2018 by Kelley Lynn Leave a Comment

Tomorrow is my wedding anniversary.  It would have been 12 years of lovely marriage.  Instead, we got 4 years and 9 months.  But who’s counting?  And does it even really matter anymore?  I mean, I think that no matter how many years it’s been since the last anniversary, this day will always hit me like a bag of bricks across the heart. I just…

Filed Under: Widowed Anniversaries Tagged With: widowhood and wedding anniversaries, kelley lynn, wedding anniversary, anniversaries

The Silent Missing

October 12, 2018 by Kelley Lynn Leave a Comment

Oh, the sadness of October.  My wedding anniversary.  Followed by our honeymoon anniversary, just days later,  and then Don’s birthday, just days into that.    October 27th we married.  In 2006.  Its toward the end of the month, and its true what they say. The build-up to these milestone days, is often worse than the actual day itself.  …

Filed Under: Widowed Birthdays, Widowed Anniversaries, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: widowhood and wedding anniversaries, birthdays, kelley lynn, expressions of grief

3 Year Non-Anniversary

July 25, 2018 by Olivia Arnold Leave a Comment

Yesterday, July 25, is the third anniversary of our wedding without him. That’s three more anniversaries than I celebrated with him. We didn’t get to celebrate a single one. I try to imagine what we might be doing on our third anniversary but it’s hard to both predict and recall something that never once happened. Would we be going out for…

Filed Under: Widowed Anniversaries, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: widowed sadness, widowhood and wedding anniversaries, olivia arnold, frustration, forgetting him, widowed fear of forgetting

Can I Really Do This

June 20, 2015 by Rebecca Collins Leave a Comment

I’m writing this from an airplane, somewhere over the Indian Ocean, as I’m on my way to Bali to spend a week at a beautiful yoga and healing retreat.  It’s a funny story actually… this whole trip only got planned on Tuesday.  Yes, as in four days ago.   It came about through a range of unusual circumstances and has really had me thinking about…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Anniversaries, Widowed by Suicide Tagged With: healing for widowed, widowhood and wedding anniversaries, widow, rebecca collins, aussie widow, suicide widow, hope for widowed, young widow

Less than a decade, more than a lifetime.

August 15, 2013 by Veronica King-Cunningham Leave a Comment

It’s always been a hard reality for me to swallow that I never got a full decade with Jeremy. Something about that round number made me feel even more like I got robbed. I started dating Jeremy shortly after I turned 20. He died when I was 28 – I never got to celebrate turning 20 or 30 with him. Just inside a decade.A few weeks ago, Jeremy and I…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed Anniversaries, Widowed Suddenly Tagged With: young widow, widowhood and wedding anniversaries, widowed suddenly, widowed memories, veronica king-cunningham

Not Enough

August 11, 2013 by Richard Cox Leave a Comment

  Since my husband’s suicide in July 2010, I have struggled with feeling likeI was not enough.   I was not enough to keep my husband alive.   I have felt that if I was a better friend, a better wife, a better support system, my husband would still be alive.Realizing that sometimes love is NOT enough.. is devastating.   What happened to all…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Anniversaries, Widowed by Suicide Tagged With: young widow, widowhood and wedding anniversaries, widow, widowed perspective, suicide widow, melinda mcdonald

Today would have been our 14th wedding anniversary.

September 29, 2011 by Amanda Wright Leave a Comment

Fourteen years ago, I awoke in my childhood bedroom … well got up anyway … I was too excited to sleep much. My bridesmaid, my Mum and I quickly ate breakfast and took ourselves down to the salon for ‘hair and makeup’. We emerged hours later, coiffed and painted, but still recognisable. Everyone ate lunch … not me … I couldn’t eat for the…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Anniversaries, Widowed Holidays Tagged With: widowed holidays, widowhood and wedding anniversaries, widow, amanda wright

A Day That Will Live ….

June 1, 2011 by Janine Eggers Leave a Comment

(I wrote this post on my blog Saturday night/Sunday morning.  Saturday, the 28th, would have been our 28th wedding anniversary.) ….in infamy.  Or at least in history. Our history. Son #2 graduated tonight. He did it. In spite of …. so much. He. Did. It. On this day. This once very happy day.This day that used to stand for love, commitment,…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Anniversaries, Widowed Holidays, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Suddenly Tagged With: widowed holidays, widowhood and wedding anniversaries, widowed suddenly, widow, expressions of grief, janine eggers, hope for widowed, young widow, widowed parenting

Introducing Chris and Maggie

May 3, 2011 by Jason Weaver Leave a Comment

Like everyone else who shares the title “widower” or “widow”, I didn’t ask for this. I didn’t kick sleeping dogs or twist baby toes to make them cry. I can’t imagine what I did that pissed off the devil (or God) to get me to this place but here I am. Here you are. I’m not going anywhere so I might as well be polite and introduce us…

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