Only one now holds the wishes, hopes and dreams that belonged to a couple. Homes to build, trips to take, children to raise, that once were a couples plan are now the plan of one. Why do widows stay up at night? We’re attempting to recreate a world we believed we had for a lifetime. Nothing is the same and everything, everything has changed.
In the opening chapters of 'A Road Less Travelled' by M Scott Peck, the author talks about discipline and how it is this discipline which gives us not only structure in our lives, but also assists us in overcoming difficulties and problems. Discipline here is in the sense of being in control of ourselves and doing what needs to be done before doing what we want to do. If we do what we want to do first, then there is less incentive to do what needs to be done and if what needs to be done is difficult, then it will be easier to put off doing it.
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The morning after my first session of a grief support group.
I had wanted to stay at home in bed all day, but I couldn’t. I had two children to take to school and a paycheck to earn. I had awakened that morning with a horrible headache, a dark depression and a deep despair that was worse than I had ever experienced.
"Men grieve far more than we show or discuss."
The first thing women should know about male grief is that we have a lot of it. It is pushed into many darkened corners of our lives. We try to stay very, very busy.
We hurt when our children leave home. In one fashion or another, we helped build that emptying nest.
Many types of bereavement go unrecognised, but few will cause people to look at you as if you’ve just arrived from the nearest planet with an extra-terrestrial population. That is a particular problem for people who have experienced the loss of somebody they only knew online. There is a definite tendency to think that the nature of online relationships makes them somehow less worthy of recognition and mourning when people we have known through those means pass away.
Sweet Serenity: What I Know For Sure
By C.S. Lockley
He lay there dying and muttered the final words as his last breath drew to a close "I love you." Think about this statement, can you remember the final words that your loved one said to you before they moved on to the spirit world.
Honored Before the deaths of my children I was never the person to have a life mission of helping other people. I never really thought about it, I guess you could say I was selfish from that standpoint. If someone needed help and asked, I was there for them, but I never went out of [...]
This is the story of Adrienne, as told by Kelly Larsen I was married for 29 years; I got married when I was 23. And my husband and I sort of grew up together. We had the perfect marriage, everything … Continue reading
