Five of us sit around a table. Even though there are only seven people in the small restaurant – including the five of us – our server is slow to get us our drinks. As we wait, we talk about launching our website and the discussion turns to the best way to welcome people. Suggestions run from starting with a specific topic to posting a general blog about grief. Should we take a serious tone or make it light-hearted? “Why don’t we just write about this conversation and start from the beginning?” one of the widows says.
A long pause follows.
What is the beginning? What is the entry point to our journey of grief? Is it the moment our spouse dies, officially labeling us a widow/widower? For some, is it the moment we know our spouse isn’t long for this world? Or how about the first deathiversary, spouse’s birthday, wedding anniversary? Is it the first time we’re buying groceries and seeing the oranges reduces us to tears because breakfasts of past always included fruit as a mainstay? My, how healthy we all were back then.
The journey through grief is unique for everyone. Everyone has their own starting point. The only constant is that we are all going through it differently. That we have to go through it at all is what binds us together. The knowledge that there is strength in numbers is at the core of the Chicagoland Young Widowed Connection mission. As we welcome you to CYWC’s beginning, we anticipate learning more about your beginning and look forward to you joining us on this journey.
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Thanks, Candy. I actually
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