Widow Wisdom: When You Lost Your Spouse, What Did People Do That Helped Your Children?
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We asked our widow sisters to share their wisdom by answering this question: When you lost your spouse, what did people do that helped your children?
Here are some of their answers:
They encouraged normalcy. Allowed their kids to come here for sleepovers, and cheered them on as if part of a team. Actually were part of several teams. But the parents let their kids hang with mine. I had been worried because my husband died by suicide. I had feared alienation or lack of trust in our family. In fact we found the opposite…warm arms and lots of trust.
– Molly
I have 2 adult daughters with families. Their friends did meal trains. Came by to visit. Called.
– Wister on Instagram
My husband died two weeks from my eldest son’s graduation. My sons girlfriend’s family combined their graduation parties because I could not plan a funeral and a graduation party at the same time. They will never know how much that truly meant to my family, to my son, the two kids are tenacious nu…
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