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Memo to Adult Children of the Widowed

One of your parents died. It happens. When it does, the impact is personal and creates all kinds of challenges. How do I help my grieving parent, while I am grieving myself? How is my role different now as the child of a parent now alone? It’s all so complicated! Books can be written (andContinue reading “Memo to Adult Children of the Widowed”

I THINK A LOT ABOUT MARRIAGE NOW

(Reflections of a seasoned widower) I was nineteen years old when I said, “I do.” She was, too. What were we thinking? What did we know? Not much, but we knew, for sure, we wanted to be together. It worked, until it didn’t. Forty-one years later, after eight-plus years of decline due to Parkinson’s Disease,Continue reading “I THINK A LOT ABOUT MARRIAGE NOW”