Holidays & Anniversaries
by American Widow Project
Nov 24, 2011
With the Holiday season fast approaching, and everyone you know, and wish you didn’t, is making merry…
While you, the newly widowed, are thinking, Bah, Humbug…
Is it any wonder you want to scream, “Stuff a sock in it!” to that man on the corner dressed in a red suit, with a white beard, ringing a bell?
I want you to know, you’re not alone.
Though the upcoming holidays without Him may bring you down, here are four new tips for you, the newly widowed, to make it through:
1. Make a New Memory!
In your mind’s eye, you see His image reflected everywhere you go—In every ornament and…
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