Almost two years after my husband died I found a website pertaining to being widowed young called Young Widow Bulletin Board. It allowed for interaction between widowed people and there were even planned get-togethers for the members. It was during one of those meet ups that I met two widows who had been pregnant when their husbands died, one of cancer and one of the chicken pox. Betsy (the one whose husband died of chicken pox) had two other kids and Kelly was expecting her first child. They were both in their early thirties if I recall correctly. Unfortunately, the YWBB no longer exists- its creators shut it down about four years ago. There is another iteration called Widda but it is not as widely used although still a very helpful site.
If you search around my articles you can find some of my writings pertaining to being widowed. Here are links to a few-
and a fiction piece I wrote about a widow moving through her life after being widowed…
There are several others but I don’t want to clutter up your response section with a bunch of links to my stories.
I think an article about how your husband’s death affected your kids would be truly helpful. My daughter was 17 and he died during her senior year of high school. She missed him witnessing her graduation, her going to college, her graduation from college and her falling in love. She got married in 2017 and that was probably her hardest moment other than how she has felt every single day with not having her Dad.
I was totally caught off guard with being a single parent…never considered the impact of it while he was dying (he was sick for 14 months).
The man I remarried was a widower and his daughter was 12 when her Mom died so I’ve seen how that affected someone of a younger age too.
Thanks for the follow. I’ll be keeping an eye out for more of your writing.
