6 things I’ve learned since my husband died
My year of grieving has taught me so much about life and how to live in gratitude and with forbearance. I’m a better person today than I was a year ago…
Recovering in Grief
Stories of processing and recovering from devastating loss, and choices about life’s next steps.
After Dementia: What comes next?
Robert died almost one year ago. I have begun to catalog what I’ve learned in the last few years and what telling our story has meant to me and others…
Choosing life, one date at a time
I broke watching my husband decline. I felt I was dying with him. Could a new relationship save me?
How dating brought me back to my husband
I had been so frustrated with Robert for so long that I had forgotten what a kind, gentle, man he is. I forgot that I loved him. Let me explain.
How to cut an onion without crying
And other lessons on how to be flexible in a new relationship.
Joy again? Life is sneaky like that.
Will and I started seeing each other 18 months after I placed my husband in a memory care facility. I was lonely after years of declining companionship…
This isn’t actually a date, is it?
The prospect of dancing in public unnerved me. My sweet Robert and I hadn’t danced in years. The last time we’d taken a spin around the floor was at Maddie’s…
Diddling around the edges of online dating
For months after posting my dating profile, I picked through online profiles of potential companions without ever “liking” one. I felt a swell of anxiety…
Putting myself out there
My daughter encouraged me to start dating when her father, my husband, was in memory care. This is how I started to present myself to the world…
I don’t want to be alone. Now what?
In many ways, spouses are as imprisoned as their loved ones with dementia. What if a full life means being in a loving, reciprocal, committed partnership…