This is something I've often reflected on, as I have felt both alone and lonely, and there really is a distinct difference. I felt alone...

So, really, this is a Helping Others Understand post, and a lovely little follow up from yesterday, where I talked about what not to say....

I can already feel my blood boiling as I begin to compose this blog today. Although, I do want to add that I don't think people really...

This might sound really bah humbug, but I can genuinely say I really hate holidays. All of them. New Years Day, Valentine's Day, Easter...

This one is a killer. It still haunts me now. You’ll have seen this in To My Newly Dead Husband, my letter written to my husband. Raw and...

This was a post I wrote on my page, The Reluctant Widow, on Facebook, and I wanted to share because it was such an awful experience. If...

These are the ones that really take your breath away. It’s impossible to write you a list as the triggers are totally different for...

So, you’re going to have to bear with me on this blog, as I know what I’m trying to say, but for some reason I am really struggling to...

The wonderful Jane Austen wrote: "and sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself because I could find no language to describe to...

I am not a religious person, but I am spiritual I guess, if I needed to put a label on my belief system. I don't believe in heaven, or...

I think it just becomes one of those things people say to you. "You're amazing, I don't know how you do it, you are so strong", they say....

As a widow/er, it's easy to get drawn into the trap of just smiling through the grief when you feel broken inside. When I first became...

I remember the first time I heard our wedding song, out in the real world. It was strange, because it was totally unexpected. We...

I can honestly say I've never said goodbye. It's always been a very conscious decision. On the day he died, when I left him in the...

I've kept a diary since I was 11, and now, just keep a line a day one in a five year diary instead. I guess in many ways, writing on my...

There's that mantra that you can't choose the cards you get dealt in life, but you can choose how you play them, and yes, I mostly agree,...

Weekends have always been the time when I was painfully aware he wasn't here. Perhaps I should say most painfully aware, as in honestly,...

You're not crazy. You won't go crazy. You never were. You never will. Although grief would have you believing that you were losing the...

I have always found it very difficult when non grievers tried to pull me out of, and away from my grief. Some of them wanted the best for...