Jamie London-Clay (LadiSoul)·2d agoSix Years a Widow: What Rebuilding Actually Looks LikeToday is the sixth anniversary of the day my husband died. I am still rebuilding, and I wrote this from inside it, not from behind it.
Ruth After Him·Oct 23The Darker Side of Losing a Husband Without WarningThe parts of widowhood nobody puts in a sympathy card, the ones that arrive after everyone has gone home.
Ruth After Him·Oct 23My Husband Died Suddenly, and What Happened Next Is Horrifyingly CommonA stack of forms, a ringing phone, and no one left to tell me where to start.
John Macy·Oct 21The Tax Bill Nobody Warns You About After Losing a Spouse.Widow’s Tax Trap: How Taxes Can Rise in Retirement
InThe Beautiful StorybyMargaret Sefton·Oct 14Ladybug: A Boat Captain’s WidowFlash FictionA response icon1A response icon1
Namara Patricia Christine·Oct 2Get out of that woman’s house!The widows and orphans among us may have no Odysseus coming to defend them. So when injustice enters their home disguised as family…
Marta Levchenko·Sep 26Women Don’t Want to Date a Widower with Kids—Here’s WhyDon’t take rejection personally.
Ryanne Sheeley·Sep 22What starting over actually looks likeThere’s a version of “starting over” that shows up in movies. A montage. A haircut. A new apartment with good light. Mine looked more like…
InThe Howling OwlbyJohn E Marks·Sep 16SutiSuttee, Sanskrit sati (“good woman” or “chaste wife”), a Hindu custom of a wife immolating herself on the funeral pyre of her dead husband.A response icon2A response icon2
Auré | Infidelity Recovery & Relationship Support·Sep 15I Sat in the Parking Lot Outside a Widow and Widower Support Group Three Times Before I Went InNobody in That Room FlinchedA response icon3A response icon3
