widow

Many of us older daters weren’t brought up with the idea of consent.

The rancor over Patton Oswalt’s engagement fifteen months after his wife’s death drives home the fact that only the grieving can decide how to grieve, or conversely, when to be done mourning. In the case of widowed people, only the bereaved can decide when they’re ready to love again.

Answers for women looking to get through (and beyond) the grief of widowhood.