Widowhood

The W Connection: Support for Widows by Widows

Perry Garfinkel | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Women, Morgan Stanley, Widowhood, Women's Issues, Women's Health, Social Services, New Yorkers, Widows, Fifty News
Perry Garfinkel

With the economy still not recovered, federally funded social service agencies and hospital and hospice-based bereavement groups for widows are becoming an endangered species.

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It's Easier To Get Over The Death Of A Spouse Than Long-Term Unemployment

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Job Losses, Video, Unemployment, Job Loss, Widowhood, Mental Health, Life Satisfaction, Divorce, Long-Term Unemployment, Long-Term Unemployed, Joblessness, Death, Happiness, Business News

Stay unemployed long enough, and you don't just bounce back once a job rolls around. People who have been out of work a long time tend to be unhapp...

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Why I Don't Need To Be The Love Of My Husband's Life

Lauren Weedman | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Marriage, Widowhood, Marriage to a Widower, Marriage Advice, Love of My Life, Being Married to a Widower, Widower, After the Wedding, Weddings News
Lauren Weedman

But there is one area of NEED that I don't have to fake and that I am totally at peace with. I do not need for my husband to tell me that I'm the love of his life. Which sounds like some dirty hippy swinger talk. But it's not. It's being married to a widower talk.

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A Financial To-Do List for the Recently Widowed

Jason Alderman | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Retirement Savings, Irs, COBRA Continuation Coverage, Social Security Administration, Widowhood, Financial Planners, Survivor Benefits, Veterans Administration, Money News
Jason Alderman

Although there are certain actions you must take right away to ensure your current financial security, several major decisions with long-term consequences should probably be postponed until you've had a chance to reflect on how -- and where -- you want to spend the rest of your life.

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Which is Worse: Losing A Spouse To Divorce Or To Death?

D. A. Wolf | Posted 03.17.2012

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D. A. Wolf

In death and divorce, we face the palpable destruction of the familiar: the structure of marriage, the family home, and loss of "self" in the role of partner.

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Don't Dis(miss) The Red Hats

Pamela Poole | Posted 03.04.2012

Read More: Socializing, Companionship, Isolation, Widowhood, Entertainment, Charity, Divorce, Red Hat Society, Solitude, Fun, Arts, Culture, Video, Fifty News
Pamela Poole

This is the scene: My diminutive, white-haired, almost-70 mother walking through a hotel parking lot in San Diego one morning in a purple satin kimono with ostrich feather trim over boxer shorts and a t-shirt that says "Put on your big girl panties and deal with it!" Plus red cowboy boots and a red cowboy hat.

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Why You Should Think Before Saying 'Just'

Carolyn Bucior | Posted 01.31.2012

Read More: Women, Widowhood, Divorce, Words, Insults, Motherhood, Etiquette, Communication Skills, Communication, Women News
Carolyn Bucior

Just one child. Just a waitress. Just an average student.

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A Conversation with Karen Green on Art and Forgiveness

Max Benavidez | Posted 11.19.2011

Read More: The Pale King, Art, Widowhood, David Foster Wallace, Forgiveness, Karen Green, Tiny Stampede, Space Gallery, David Foster Wallace Wife, Art Shows, Arts News
Max Benavidez

Artist Karen Green's latest show, "Tiny Stampede," opens Sept. 24, and presents a view into widowhood that is both cleansing and illuminating without ignoring the finality of death.

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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
Elizabeth Benedict

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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Joyce Carol Oates on A Widow's Story

Louise McCready | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: A Widow's Story, Widowhood, Joyce Carol Oates, Books, Books News
Louise McCready

This week marks the release of Joyce Carol Oates' memoir A Widow's Story.

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Widowhood: Life After Losing a Loved One

Honey Seltzer | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Widowhood, Marriage, Sick, Death & Dying, Grief, Healthy Living News
Honey Seltzer

Life is not an easy journey. There are things we cannot prevent, but for me I've had no regrets. I have shared a lot of myself with someone I cared about, but I never looked for another husband.

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Pilgrim's Progress: Billy Graham On Death, Dying And Faith

Janet Kinosian | Posted 11.17.2011

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Janet Kinosian

It's been nearly 60 years since Billy Graham led his first major evangelistic crusade. At 89 and slowed by Parkinson's disease, Graham spends most of his time at his North Carolina mountaintop home.

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Who Needs Marriage?

Philip N. Cohen | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Suicide, Marriage, Widowhood, Divorce, Gender Inequality, Health, Men and Women, Differences Between Men and Women, Happiness, Gender, Healthy Living News
Philip N. Cohen

Sociologists have long considered suicide to be the gold standard measure of psychological wellbeing. Now we have a long-term study that finds that marriage protects men more than women from themselves.

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The Inner Journey I Had To Take: Two Weeks Alone on a Cliff

Lea Lane | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: New Brunswick Canada, Leo Kotke, Mel Torme, Widowhood, The Eagles, Relationships, Unplug and Recharge, Death, Traveling Alone, The Inner Life, Solo Travel, Bay of Fundy, Solitude, Dusty Springfield, Being Alone, The Balanced Life, Healthy Living News
Lea Lane

Why, I wondered, did I go on this solitary inner journey, farther than I had ever traveled, but within myself? To wash away pain? To prove my fortitude?

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So Cal Chronicles Suburban-Style

Jane Minogue | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Suburbs, Elderly, Women's Rights, Widowhood, Medieval, Suburbia, Magna Carta, Alcoholism, Racism, Widows, Style News
Jane Minogue

At the checkout in front of me was a frail, elderly lady in a gray sweat suit. Her liver-spotted hands shook as she put 2 jugs of wine onto the counter. One red, one white. Her drugs of choice.

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Friendship by the Book: An Interview with Anne Roiphe

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.17.2011

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Dr. Irene S. Levine

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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True or False: Married People Healthiest, but Singles Catching Up

Bella DePaulo | Posted 11.17.2011

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Bella DePaulo

Even allowing for the approach that makes marriage look better than it really is, the differences in health between the currently-married and the always-single are tiny.

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