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I Want Breakfast in Bed! When is Stepmother's Day?

Raina Wallens | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Star Wars, Pokemon, Divorce, Mother's Day, Hoarders, Widow, Stepmom, Stepparents, Parenting, Stepmother, Legos, Family, Stepparenting, Parents News

It's stepparents -- the very people who don't actually have an official day -- who could, well, kind of use one.

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Online Dating: Lessons Learned and Why "Love It Naughty" Has Nothing on Me

Amy Lennard Goehner | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Autism Awareness, Online Dating, Therapist, Widow, Kids, Married, Online Dating Profile, Parents News

"My name is Amy. And I'm an online dating fibber." When I filled in my application, I wrote my age from four years earlier. It wasn't as bad as one woman I know who, after fibbing about her age, weight, and hair color wrote that what she's looking for in a man is "honesty."

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The Morning I Removed The Rings

Susan McCorkindale | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Borders Bankruptcy, Michael Jordan, Ford Mustang, Grief, Wedding Rings, Grand Central Station, Widow, Durango, Jewelry, Hl-Remembrance, Women News

I can't remember the exact date I took my wedding rings off, but I know it was sometime late last summer when I'd been a widow about four months.

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What Does It Feel Like to Have Your Spouse Die?

Quora | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Spouse, Marriage, Quora, Widow, Relationships, Love, Love and Relationships, Death, Culture News

I don't think I will ever forget what he looked like when he died. His head leaned to one side, his neck lacking the strength to support it. He turned pale, then blue, and it was a quiet death. That was the moment he ceased to be the person I had known.

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For Health's Sake, Share and Enjoy Lots of Lovin', on Valentine's Day and Year Round

Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D. | Posted 04.14.2012

Read More: Marriage, Widow, Singles, Mortality Rates, Dr. Glenn Braunstein, Cedars Sinai, Health and Love, Friendship, Social Networks, Valentine's Day, Los Angeles News

In the human health equation, love in all its varieties rains down benefits for us. So let's take this day to celebrate the joy, pleasure and positive psychology that love from all sources brings to our mental and physical health.

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How to Console a Grieving Friend During the Holidays

Ashley Davis Bush, LCSW | Posted 02.19.2012

Read More: Bereavement, Grieving Process, Sorrow, Grief, Coping With Death, Widowers, Widow, Loss, Grieving, Death, Emotional Intelligence, Healthy Living News

Consoling a griever can feel like a frightening task. However, if you follow these six tips designed to open your heart and offer your support, your grieving friend will be most grateful.

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How To Survive The Loss Of A Spouse

D. Keith Cobb, M.D. | Posted 01.15.2012

Read More: Coping With Death, Widow, Healthy Living Spirit, Grief, Death of Spouse, Death & Dying, Grieving, Death, Healthy Living News

The death of a spouse is rated as one of the most distressing events in life -- an event that one spouse in every couple must eventually face.

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Bra Clasps and Dating at 51

Michael Apstein | Posted 12.18.2011

Read More: Online Dating, Widowers, Dating Tips, Dating Advice, Dating Mistakes, Dating, Reinvention, Widow, Love Post50, Fifty News

Basically, I suck at dating. Maybe I waited too long. I was wrecked by the loss of my wife, and had young teens at home I was suddenly raising on my own, so despite friends and professionals pushing, I waited. About three and a half years I waited.

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He Died and Left Her a Million

Natalie Pace | Posted 09.15.2011

Read More: Pension, Debt, Divorce, Natalie Pace, Cd, Gold, Widow, Business, Rich, Tithe, Invest, Life, Death, Nest Egg, Startup, Insurance, Millionaire, Industry, NataliePace.Com, Stock, Bank, Obit, Broker, Real Estate, 401k, Inherit, Bill, Family, Ira, Career & Money, Women News

I received a call from a woman who had a tragic event in her life, which completely changed her income status overnight. Her husband passed away unex...

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International Widows Day Opens Eyes, Hearts

Wendy Diamond | Posted 08.30.2011

Read More: Women for Women International, The Loomba Foundation, Cherie Blair, Amir Dossal, United Nations, Windows for Widows, Widow, Widows, Wendy Diamond, Pet Therapy, Raj Loomba, Impact News

In 2005 Cherie Blair launched International Widows Day at the House of Lords in London, and this important humanitarian conversation has continued to capture the interest of governments worldwide.

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Mending Broken Hearts: Young Widows Find Support After Losing Husbands In War

Posted 07.30.2011

Read More: Video, Military Widows, American Widow Project, Widow, Support Groups, Good News, Taryn Davis, Military Families, War Widows, Impact News

When Taryn Davis lost her husband at the age of 21, she couldn't find a relatable support group. Because of her young age, she says her grief was ofte...

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Joyce Carol Oates: A Widow's Derangement

Elizabeth Benedict | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Suicide, Raymond Smith, Widow, Joyce Carol Oates, Princeton, Janet Maslin, Widowhood, A Widow's Story, Remarriage, Books News

A Widow's Story is called a memoir, but the word seems too slight for the grandeur of what Joyce Carol Oates does in this work of startling intimacy, humanity, humility, and wisdom.

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What Do You Call Losing a Friend? Let's Take the Long Way Home

Randy Susan Meyers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Friendship, Book Reviews, Let's Take the Long Way Home, Gail Caldwell, Best Friends, Grief, Books, Mourning, Widow, Best Friend, Books News

Why isn't there a name for having your closest friend die? There is widowhood, there is being orphaned. The friends we love, the family of our heart -- we have no customs for mourning that loss.

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Friendship in a Box: What's going on?

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.17.2011

QUESTION Dear Irene, I haven't seen anything like this on your blog, so maybe others have the same question. I have a close friend I met about two ...

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Through Grief And Into Life

Deborah Calla | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Grief, Sex, Widow, Husband, Love, Grieving, Intimacy, Marriage, Relationships, Death, Healthy Living News

Since my husband passed away, I miss intimacy. Not just sex but lying in bed with someone and watching TV, having candle lit dinners, and falling asleep with another person's arms around me.

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A Widow On Valentine's Day

Deborah Calla | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Valentines Day, Hiking, Widow, Cancer, Husband, Lovers, Amputee, Grief, Valentine's Day, Healthy Living News

I'm a widow. I never thought I would say these words. I never thought I would say them in my 40s. Widows are supposed to be old women contemplating the end of their lives.

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Single Mother Escapes Decade Of Alleged Slavery In Texas

AP | ANABELLE GARAY | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Texas, Slavery, Forced Labor, Indentured Servitude, Nigeria, Ngozi Nnaji, Emmanuel Nnaji, Single Mother, Widow, Home News

DALLAS — She was a widow in a Nigerian village trying to raise six children when she says she met a man who told her he and his wife needed a na...

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What Happens When You Lose A Soul Mate?

divinecaroline.com | :Ã‚Â Catherine Behan (View Profile) | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Grief, Death and Dying, Mourning, Widow, Coping, Loss, The Inner Life, Love, Grieving, Death, Healthy Living News

She walked to the kitchen to make a pot of coffee and paused, like always, gazing at the faded photo framed in the hallway. It had been twenty years a...

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Did Katie Couric Fire Walter Cronkite's Voice...Or did the Cronkite family, make his voice "quit" Katie's show?

Stephen Viscusi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: White House, The Daily Beat, Julie Chen, Andy Rooney, Media, Morning Joe, Cbs, Diane Sawyer, Gay, Unemployment, Newscorp, Richard Nixon, Katie Couric, Tiger Woods, Sara Palin, Harpercollins, Beauty Queen, Stephen Viscusi, Dan Rather, Leslie Moonves, Abc, Fired, CBS Morning Show, Robin Roberts, Morgan Freeman, Beauty Pageants, Hire, Bulletproof Your Job, CBS Evening News With Katie Couric, Suze Orman, Blond, Joy Behar, NBC Nightly News, Workplace Guru, Lesbian, Hardball With Chris Matthews, Widow, Barbara Walters, Walter Cronkite, Fox News, Republicans, Brian Roberts, 60 Minutes, Big Brother, Charles Gibson, David Letterman, Dave Price, Announcements, Voiceover, Media News

By Stephen Viscusi Although I work on TV now myself, preparing for my own TV show "The Job's Whisperer" I started my career as a headhunter, then ra...

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What Do You Know? It's National Singles Week

Bella DePaulo | Posted 11.17.2011

Our perceptions of single people and their place in society have not caught up with the realities. How well do you know your single people? Take this quiz.

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Newsweek's Misleading Account of Latest Marriage Study

Bella DePaulo | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Mark Sanford, Depression, Singled Out, Divorce, Marriage, Jon and Kate, Marriage Movement, Widow, Media, Policy, Myths, Age of Marriage, Journalism, Singlism, Methodological Problems, Health, Single, Chronic Illness, Remarriage, Newsweek, Healthy Living News

A new day has dawned, and with it another study of marriage misrepresented in the media: as always, implying that getting married results in better outcomes than it actually does.

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Get Married, Live Longer? It's a Myth

Bella DePaulo | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Singled Out, Single Men, Longevity, Divorce, Bogus Claims, Marriage, Mortality, Cheater Method, Widow, Media, Myths, Happiness, Impossible Experiment, Singlism, Health, Single, Washington Post, Valentine's Day, Rand, Single Women, Healthy Living News

When the authors of The Case claimed that getting married saved men's lives, they did so by acting as if the men who got divorced or widowed did not actually get married.

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Varanasi: The Illicit (xiii)

Karin Badt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: India, Varanasi, Tips for Women Travelers, Widow, Loss, Sex, Style News

The travelers who come to Ganges View Hotel are unusual: a sophisticated Danish woman who works with trauma victims in Iraq, Columbia and other war a...

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Friendship by the Book: An Interview with Anne Roiphe

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.17.2011

Epilogue is a gripping memoir by National Book Award finalist Anne Roiphe, who was forced to recompose her life after the sudden loss of her husband of 39 years.

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