Widower tagged posts

I was asked if the relationship someone recently developed with a widower was healthy. Can she make a solid connection with him if all he talks about is his lost wife, etc. Speaking from experience, there are three critical components to dating someone who has lost a spouse: timing, emotional state, and living in the present.

A Good Day in the Life of a Grieving Widower

A Good Day in the Life of a Grieving Widower
By: Pierre Milot

Strangely enough, today is a good day, it’s been so long since I’ve had one.

All bundled up in my red checkered construction shirt, and discreetly trespassing on my neighbour’s long country driveway, I’m taking my old dog Max out for his morning walk. 
Protected from the cool river wind by the bordering woods, I can feel the hot spring sun gently warming my face and shoulders, and can hear nothing else but the birds chirping, the familiar honking sound of the Canadian wild geese flying high in the clear blue sky happy to come back home, and the delightful crunching sound of gravel underneath my feet as I walk.  With an uncertain smile I breathe in the fresh morning breeze, I feel good...

Dating a widower: Why won’t he commit?

                                 Finding Love after 50: The Wrong Way

 ©Tom Blake – The Dating After 50 Expert – June 1, 2009

I receive between 40 and 50 emails a day from people searching for love after age 50. Often they find me by doing a Google Search on the words “finding love after 50” or “love after 50,” which leads them to my www.findingloveafter50.com website. Out of 40,000,000 results that Google produces for those words, my website is number one in the world.

One recent flurry of emails from a divorced woman left my head spinning.

Melinda, 53, wrote that five weeks ago (May, 2009) she met a 58-year-old widower of seven months on Match.com and had dated him “full-time” since then...

Widower dating behavior–dump him or keep him?

Widower dating: Should Barb pull the plug?

Barb is involved in a long distance relationship with a widower and there are some issues that are starting to bother her.
Barb said, “I met a man on eHarmony; we have been seeing each other twice a month for a little over a year. He lives two hours away. He visits here and I visit there. The problem: His wife died six years ago and he still has her 11×14 picture in the dining area where we eat and drink coffee. He likes to kiss and hug me in front of the picture. I told him it makes me uncomfortable.
“Two different times while I was visiting the widower took the picture down and put it away. The last time I was there the picture was back up on the wall. I didn’t say anything, so it is still there...