Each time I have found an article online that I found helpful, I’ve bookmarked it. Now I’m working on adding them to this list. As they say, YMMV – Your mileage may vary. Not everyone will find everything helpful on this list. But I wanted to put it all out there, and people can decide for themselves what works and what doesn’t. I’ve found numerous useful, heartwarming, heart-wrenching, etc, articles since I lost my Teresa. But all over the place. I’ve found very few sites for widows that collectively shared info. It’s like each one is wanting to be the best. I just want to share everything I liked with you all. Posts linked here are not written by Teresa or Amanda; they go to external sites. 

• Dear Friend of the Widow: Foolproof Consolation, Eight Ways to Help the Grieving
• How You Die When Someone You Love Dies
• Widowhood Can Shorten a Partner’s Lifespan
• The condolences end. Being a widow doesn’t.: The second year without my husband is in some ways harder than the first.
• How the “Widowhood Effect” Puts Widows At Risk After a Spouse’s Death
• Why You Can’t “Heal” Widowhood Grief
• The widowhood effect: What It’s Like to Lose a Spouse in Your 30’s (I was older than this, but still considered a young widow; I’m not even eligible for widow benefits — and won’t be for a long, long time. If I remarry before 60, I lose them.)
• Marital Quality and Psychological Adjustment to Widowhood Among Older Adults: A Longitudinal Analysis
• Is Broken Heart Syndrome Real?
• Let’s Stop the Widow Penalty By Insurance Companies
• Please Don’t Tell a Widow to ‘Get Over It’
• 10 Things You Should Never Say to a Widow
• Loss of a Spouse: 5 Things Only a Widow(er) Understands
• Widow Fears Sharing Thoughts of Suicide
• 6 Things About Loss This Widow Wishes You Knew
• Study Says Widower Effect is Real
• 7 Tips to Help a Widow (for friends/family)
• What to do when a loved one dies
• When Family and Friends ‘Forget’: 6 Essential Tips for Widowed
• Broken But Healing (widowed in 40s)
• I Was Widowed in My 40s

Grief Groups:

• This is the main grief group I am in; they’ve been wonderful: https://www.facebook.com/groups/LGBTgriefsupport/