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Do Widows Have to Exercise?
Widows are supposed to feel lousy, and have no energy. Everybody knows grief is ugly. Since it doesn’t matter how I look anymore, why should I push myself out the door, or sign up for a stinky gym?
Do you recognize my attitude? I had it for a couple of years after the death of my husband, and I gained about twenty pounds. Did that mak [...]
Happy New Year???
I nearly ruined Christmas by dreading the new year. It was not too long after my husband died and my heart was still broken and bleeding. Christmas was an ordeal even though my family squelched their pain to try to make a happy celebration.
In fact, we all worked hard the first Christmas without our strong, quiet leader for the sake of [...]
Has My Grief All Gone?
Today was a good day. I talked to my kids, and they are all fairly healthy and happy. Nothing in the house or car went boing or glub, glub, so that’s great. I worked all day on school projects, preparing ideas to teach my elementary kids how to find the main idea in a paragraph. Then we’ll work on discovering the same thing in a whole story. [...]
Whatever Helps on Coping With Grief
Ruby said I needed to get rid of the clothes in Robert’s closet. She got rid of her husband’s almost immediately after he died. She couldn’t bear looking at them anymore. I don’t blame her for that, but that was just not me.
I closed the door on Robert’s closet and hardly opened it for a year. I decided the jeans and plaid shirts were fine th [...]
