Category: Grief and the Holidays
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How to Make Christmas Suck Less When You’re Grieving…
Celebrating Christmas when your spouse recently died sucks. The first Christmas after my husband died, I clearly remember dreading all the associated festivities and socializing, but also feeling self-imposed pressure to somehow make the holidays feel extra magical for my seven-year-old daughter, who still believed in Santa, to try to compensate for having lost her…
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How to Make Thanksgiving Suck Less When You’re Grieving…
I can still easily remember how difficult the first Thanksgiving after my husband died was. When you feel like you have nothing to be thankful for, having to celebrate Thanksgiving sucks, plain and simple. “I can’t believe Daddy will be gone a month on Thanksgiving,” our seven-year-old daughter said the weekend before the holiday. I…