December 31st has come and gone ten times since my husband Bob was murdered. While ringing in the New Year with friends, Bob left our dinner table to check on the home of a vacationing …

By Michele Neff Hernandez —
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It is an odd and frightening sensation to wish you were dead.? After my husband died, I fervently wished I could die, too. The first time I read that grieving people …

By Michele Neff Hernandez –??
My husband used to call Valentine’s Day “So What Day.’” Romantic, huh? He thought that greeting cards were a waste of trees,?that buying flowers because someone told you to defeated the …

Jackie writes in: I just lost my husband of 25 years to liver cancer, October 2008, lived for 6 months after he was diagnosed. I cry day and night because I miss him so much. …

Suzy Aguilar writes, “My husband passed away on May 30, 2008 — yes 5 months ago.? I still feel numb and a big empty hole in my heart.? He was also my high school sweetheart.? …

By Carol O’Dell
I think I’m depressed.
Have you had this thought but couldn’t say it out loud? Caregiver depression doesn’t always look like depression. That means it can go undiagnosed for a very long time.
Caregivers who …

By Lou LaGrand
Grief and loss are inherent parts of life. No one gets off scott free from facing the emotional and physical pain of accepting the death of a loved one. Yet, all too frequently, …

By Linda Della Donna
You look at the watch strapped neatly on your wrist or at the kitchen clock tick-tocking loudly on the wall. You stare ominously at a calendar attached to the refrigerator door by …

By Linda Della Donna
At the end of a good day you bust out crying for no particular reason.
At the end of a bad day you burst out laughing for no particular reason.
At the end of …

Writer Norman Fried believes that the growing wave of female suicide attacks in Iraq highlights the need for greater understanding of the psychology of spousal-loss.

Writer and widow Elaine Williams examines the yearning for touch following the loss of a spouse due to death, divorce or physical separation. She’s trying to be patient, she writes, but some days are hard.

By Jane Costello
Life after a death. Tools for surviving the loss of a mate. Short and simple steps that help redefine who you are.
W = Was- Life as you knew it, Isn’t anymore. …

Cindy writes:
I have been listening to your radio show for awhile. I download to iPod and listen in the car. Eight years ago, my 3-year-old son was killed when a truck backed over him …

Author and widow Linda Della Donna offers new widows two pieces of sage advice

Don’t think it can’t happen.
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Elder suicide rates?are up in the United States and it usually start with depression–also a major factor in the elderly.
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It’s a deadly combination–life debilitating illness, loss of spouse, career, a terminal diagnosis, medications all?exasperate the situation.
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But it’s not the way we want it to end.
It’s not the [...]

Writer Gloria Lintermans explains the five time sequences of grief, and answers the question: When will I get through this?