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Five years

Five years

by Adrienne Gruberg | Mar 18, 2016 | Adrienne's Journal, After Caregiving, Caring for a Romantic Partner | 3 comments

It’s five years since Steve died. March 19, 2011 at 6:45p.m. But who’s counting? Even with five-plus years of anticipatory grieving, when the real thing comes along, you’re sideswiped. Every year, at this time, I run the “last days of Steve” scenario in my head, over...
I Got Addicted To Online Dating After My Husband Died

I Got Addicted To Online Dating After My Husband Died

by External Article | Sep 21, 2015 | After Caregiving, Care Work Library, Caring for a Romantic Partner, Generation X, Grief, Working Family Caregivers | 0 comments

I couldn’t deal with being alone after the death of my husband. We spent all our time together to the exclusion of others. We were both introverted, anti-social, only children. We cooked (OK, George cooked), did projects around the house, and acted like boring...

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