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Love Life Again: the widow edition

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Becoming a young widow/er is one of the challenging things people will go through… All sense of normality and the future you had planned together gets ripped from underneath you. You will need to learn how to love life again without your love in your...
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The Things that Make My Life Easier!

The things I love and use around my home
 
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This robot gives me so much joy! I hate vacuum cleaning but it's done any day now while I am not home :). Can also mop perfect in the kitchen!
ECOVACS DEEBOT N8 Robot Vacuum Cleaner,dToF 2-in-1 Vacuum & Mopping,2300Pa Suction Power,Multi-Floor Mapping, Virtual Boundary,Carpet Detection
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Support in Your Grief Journey

I have found much support during my own grief from fantastic men and women who had been through the same - some twice…. I am hoping the products I share are helpful for you. If you want to reach out and talk to someone who has experienced the same as...

 
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This book and her other resources helped me enormously. Everyone has great advice for grieving widows/ers, but no grief journey is the same. It is YOUR journey and realising that there is nothing normal(ised) about what you are going through was a co...
It is OK that you're NOT OK by Megan devine
 
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These journals are so beautiful. I have bought two for myself (and gifted many to friends!) to journal about my grief after my husband died. It was so helpful to be able to write about my pain, anguish and uncertainty. I actually wrote it as I was ta...
Beautiful Journals to write about your grief journey.
 
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The wide variety of guided meditations helped enormously to deal with anguish, anxiety, sorrow and overwhelming grief. I ended up doing the same one over and over again as it helped me cope. I am still using the app with a guided sleep meditation. It...
Insight Timer - #1 Free Meditation App for Sleep, Relax & More

Finding Love Again

You may not be ready… I joined dated sites after about 20 months my husband died. I am fortunate to say, that on my late husband third ‘’death-aversay'' (as I call them), I was able to share my memories of this amazing life-time with my love of this ... 

 
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I signed up to this site encouraged by another friend and ended up dating two nice guys from here, but ended up finding my love through a free app… I suggest try it out, but also have a look at the apps (Hinge, Bumble and Tinder) where you don't have...
Dating Millionaires
 
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In my opinion the BEST dating app around to find genuine people. The lay-out is great as you can ‘filter’ potentials by looking at how much effort they put into their profile.
Hinge: the app where I found my 2nd life-time of love
 
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Bumble was the app I started with as it lets you be in complete control over who you want to contact. It was great in the sense that it made me comfortable using these sort of apps.
Bumble - the app I started with...
 
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Hinge was the best app in the long run, but I did have some great dates with Tinder. I was really clear that I didn't want a one-night- stand. Meet the potentials right away - go for a coffee or an after work drink without any obligations!
Tinder: when I dared :)