Widows & Widowers Support Group
This community is dedicated to those who have lost a husband, wife, or partner. Anything is open for discussion here, with the hope that we can focus on grief, bereavement, life after loss, and continuing on after a great loss.
My best friend and husband of 30 years died unexpectedly in December so I am new to this group. I have found you all to be so very supportive and I want to tell you how much you have helped me (especially between 1 and 6 am when I seem to need you the most). Knowing others are having or have had some of the same emotional moments, breakdowns, etc. that I am having helps ~ not that I want every one to be in pain but you know what I mean, I was wondering if anyone might live nearby. Just curious ~ oh and I live outside the Roanoke/Salem area of Virginia
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Today (August 8) is INternational Cat Day. Don't click away! International DOG day is August 26! Both were created to raise aweareness and funds for the well-being of critters. We have many such dayts, to the pint that every day is like an old Catholic saints' day calendar: Take your pick!I'm home, obvs, and still ill. Left calf and foot not great after a tangle-fall, but i'll live. Just can't...
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I'nm exhausted. This doxycycline thing has ripped me apart and I'm eating crackers and water. I can't take (anything) or eat (anything) except saltines and toast and maybe unbuttered watery mashed potatoes. Are we sure the cure isn't worse than the possible disease?!?!And a week to go. ***Fun cures that WERE worse than the disease:ARsenic. Popular against STDs, which just compounded misery...
Maggie
We have one kid together, she's terrrific, 25 and married and working 2 jobs and going to college - and she has been great support. My wife had a son with her first husband, and after 20 years of being estranged, I asked my daughter to contact him while Arlene was in the ICU. He came and showed Arlene videos of her grandchildren, and now both of her kids are close.
I told a rabbi that it is sad that it took a deathbed scene to bring them together, and he said, "Maybe that was part of the plan."
I live in West New York, NJ, which is right across the river from Manhattan, where I work mostly, a short bus trip away, and it's like living in Queens, except it is quieter and cheaper. Arlene and I lived in Manhattan most of our lives, until we moved across the river to NJ about 15 years ago.