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After Widowhood: Hot or Not?

3/11/11 1:00pm by califmom
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So, I started to wonder, was my husband really telling me the truth? It's not that I never saw myself as sexy or interesting or smart. I just never saw myself as that person for anybody but him. It's been a strange journey reframing my vision of myself as this person independent of another. I like her, this whole, sexy, smart, fully-formed me. She's kinda awesome.  Read more >

Dear HuffPo: Divorce Is NOT Like Death, It's Like Divorce

11/23/10 3:22pm by califmom
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Comparing Apples and Oranges

My children will never see their father again. He will never be late picking them up for "his weekend." He will never spend another birthday with them, another Christmas, or see them in another Halloween costume. They will never call him on the phone. He will not attend their weddings.  Read more >

What If?

6/16/10 2:24pm by califmom
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 Do you spend your life asking yourself “What if?”What if I had gone to that Ivy League university?What if we had more money?What if I had told her I was sorry?What if we had a bigger house?What if we had another night together?What if I hadn’t lost my job?What if.  Read more >

Remembering My Late Husband: Holding My Head High Through Grief

5/13/10 5:23am by califmom
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Bob

There was a night in the hospital a couple weeks or so before Bob died when we were talking, I was crying, he was rubbing my hair, holding me, and asking me what I was afraid of most.  Read more >

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