From One Widow to Another: The Emotional Journey E-Book

Linda Foldvik

• Herausgeber: BookRix
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2012

Beschreibung

Being a widow is the pits! This is the hardest marital status to live with and the one over which we have absolutely no control, which makes it even harder to live with. And live with it, a widow must. A widow’s mantra truly is “I have no choice.”

Leseprobe

Linda Foldvik

From One Widow to Another: The Emotional Journey

To my inspiration, Orin, my beloved husband. Though he is dead, he is still very much with me and always will be.BookRix GmbH & Co. KG81371 Munich

Prologue

Being a widow is the pits! This is the hardest marital status to live with and the one over which we have absolutely no control, which makes it even harder to live with. And live with it, a widow must. A widow’s mantra truly is “I have no choice.” I am really sorry for you for your husband’s death. I know how hard this is for you. My husband died on July 21, 2007 and I still feel sadness at his death. I know that I will never fully ‘get over’ his death. But, I am learning, and re-learning, to live this life without him here, and to let him continue to live through me. Because I am not you, I cannot know exactly what you are going through, but I do fully understand the pain you feel and the feelings of helplessness and life spinning around you. You will be okay. You will never totally get over his death. But you will be able to get on with the business of life. Accept that everything has changed and will never be the same. You will gradually learn and relearn how to live with this new, unwanted, reality of your life. I wrote this book as a way of honoring the effects my husband’s death has had on my life. I hope I am also honoring our life together and the effects it had on me and will continue to have on my life. I hope this book will please his spirit and help him to see how very much I still love him and always will. He touched my heart years ago when we met and he is still doing that, through my memories, the life we shared, and I learned from him and from loving him and being completely loved. My hope is that this book will help you to find your inner strength to get through this terrible part of your life, especially the first few years. I hope that you realize that you can still really love your husband and always honor him and his memory by continuing to live the best life that you can. May God bless you always, and continually shine his light on your path.