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/