My Spouse Died Too
Gut-busting, emphatic, grand finale. First, listen someplace where it’s safe to pee your pants. Why Susan’s Uber driver advises her to lock the hotel door and under no circumstances come out until morning. Pretending all is okay--when it’s not. Telling your family to shut the fuctuplets up. Is God kept on retainer? The High School Provocative Classmates Widow Group. Susan Can’t imagine falling in love again. Oh God, I’m blushing. Can you say vi-vi-vibrators? Life’s three stages according to Susan: what sex, food, and bowel movements have in common. Women pee their...
info_outline Episode 92: My Husband Died. Damn It. (2 of 3)My Spouse Died Too
Morphine, ahhhhh. Mark’s last days. Wait, what about Sofie, Mark’s dying dog? The last goodbye. Mark and Sofie wear American football team Green Bay Packers sweatshirts. From the Woo Woo and Taboo Department: before Susan’s birth, her mom bore a son. He died at birth. Like a shameful secret, never discussed. So how does Susan’s four-year-old son know about Susan’s late infant brother? Now alone, Susan says “F#@k it, I don’t want to cook!” After Mark dies, Susan is pissed off at Mark. Susan discusses the metaphorical burden she carries and how she sheds it. Living alone...
info_outline Episode 91: My Husband Died. Damn It. (1 of 3)My Spouse Died Too
Widowed dynamo Susan Yelton jumps into action as my guest co-host in this first episode of a whirl-wind 3 part series. The series makes you: question, agree, cry, laugh, piss you off, shake your head and your fist, say oh my gosh, and holy shyt. Susan even makes me blush! In a later episode we talk about sexuality…just listen for yourself. You hear me turn red. A Baptist preacher’s daughter, at age 16, Susan meets Mark. A long-haired guitar-strumming 19-year-old. Akin to a 60’s folk singer. Instantly in love. Three years later they marry, and stay that way for fifty-two years until...
info_outline Episode 90: My Ex Died. Grief Ambushed Me. (3 of 3)My Spouse Died Too
“Are you sitting down?” When you answer your phone and the caller says this, does lousy news always ensue? Kady ruminates over how to deliver bad news to her teen daughter. Grief ambushes Kady. Kady details her what-ifs. Mourning what you thought could be. What Kady believes causes her grief—an eloquent explanation. Can death deliver relief? Kady’s fear-filled recurring nightmare about Mikey. If you haven't listened to Parts 1 or 2, link here: More EX grief stories? Listen to my sister Vickey's episode 11: . (Vickey grieves the loss of an ex-husband. Ken,...
info_outline Episode 89: My Ex Died. Grief Ambushed Me. (2 of 3)My Spouse Died Too
Kady gives Mikey an ultimatum. Mother’s little helper (the Xanax kind). Granting extra chances (breaking boundaries to stanch your pain and unease?) Kady says, “I don’t need a man." Meet Kady's condominium complex busybody matchmaker, aka, Miss Pat. Wisdom from grandma. A suicide threat. Might Kady move in with a man? A poignant proposal. And Kady gets an unforeseen telephone call about her ex, Mikey. If you haven't listened to Part 1, here's the link: More grief from an Ex? Then here's the link to my sister Vickey's episode 11: Yes, and... Before you split, Because you shouldn't...
info_outline Episode 88: My Ex Died. Grief Ambushed Me. (1 of 3)My Spouse Died Too
You might label Kady’s Ex a “major dyck head.” Today, Kady and her new husband celebrate ten-plus years with two kids—a teen and a five-year-old. (The Ex fathered Kady’s teen). And then Kady’s Ex dies. Grief ambushes Kady. Secretly grieving, Kady struggles to make sense of it. Embarrassment and shame pile on. Kady doesn’t want to tell anyone. And why might someone grieve the death of a major dyck head? This three-part series details awkward young love, endearing qualities, substance abuse, loss of innocence, teen pregnancy, immaturity, growing up too...
info_outline Episode 87: LOSS and GRIEF: Personal Stories of Doctors and Other Healthcare Professionals (2 of 2)My Spouse Died Too
Welcome to part 2: Loss and Grief Personal Stories of Doctors and Other Healthcare Professionals, with my guest co-host Linda Klein. Linda is co-editor of the book Loss and Grief Personal Stories of Doctors and Other Healthcare Professionals. I shamelessly ripped off the book’s title for the podcast episode title because it makes sense. If you haven’t listened to part 1, please do that first to avoid brain freeze. Here's the . In this final episode, we pick up where we left off from part one. I finish reading a once-upon-a-time story and then read one more tremendous story of spousal...
info_outline Episode 86: LOSS and GRIEF: Personal Stories of Doctors and Other Healthcare Professionals (1 of 2)My Spouse Died Too
Why do professionals, surrounded by death, loss, and grief, think they must hold their shyt together for their patients, family, and themselves? For years, these professionals have been expected to bury their emotions, suck it up, and move on. Present stoically. No one must know if you seek therapy. Any sign of grief is weakness. A liability. A career impediment. What will my colleagues think of me? What will my patients think of me? What will my family think of me? I’m a pro. I can’t lose my shyt. But no one, no one is spared the pain of loss, the grief, that yearning for what you can no...
info_outline Episode 85: Available As Is: A Midlife Widow's Search For Love (3 of 3)My Spouse Died Too
Do men only care about this one thing? Putting up with abuse for too long? The Devil you know vs. The Devil you don’t. Is online dating a parade of emotionally bankrupt individuals? Reality check: Recovery from losing your spouse… is bloody and painful. Debbie’s next devastating loss—her girlfriend group abandons her. Hear why. Beware, the astonishing power of loneliness. Waiting too long to move out of the home where you lived with your spouse? The length of time to find joy after loss. Chivalry is not dead—but, on life support? Looking for a long-term...
info_outline Episode 84: Available As Is: A Midlife Widow's Search For Love (2 of 3)My Spouse Died Too
After George’s death, Debbie feels she doesn’t deserve a future. Here's how she conquers that poisonous head trash. How colossal loneliness leads to a first intimate encounter. What really helps Debbie. How Debbie gains feedback to repair her life. Life when you are used to being half of a couple. Debbie Joins a Car Club. Why? Why Debbie named her web and blog site: . How to meet Mr. Oedipus complex. Why do mothers damage so many sons? The patriarchal dating game. Why Debbie must call for police protection. And plenty more. Please enjoy part 2 of this wide-ranging conversation...
info_outlinePaige and I continue our late-night foray.
Should you marry for convenience? When you’re ancient and have no helpful family around, should you marry someone just so you’ll have a nurse?
The #1 best way to die: why getting hit by a big truck is a bad option.
A Mom’s warmhearted wisdom for her widowed daughter.
Paige reveals her scary basement incident.
Crooked ear crystals (not like the healing crystals you buy in Berkeley).
A not-so-common sex position, and mucho mas. ‘Mucho mas’ is Spanish for a 'lot more.'
Mas Bullets
- Convenience Marriage
- Eighty and Alone. Now What?
- #1 Best Way to Die
- Coming and Going Wink Wink
- The Oncoming Osteo Pandemic
- Punch My Neck If I Say This
- Paige’s Scary Basement Incident
- Dazed and Confused
- Crooked Ear Crystals— Hello Sedona?
- Uncommon Simple Sex Position
- Mom’s Wisdom for Her Widowed Daughter
- Live Long Like a Boss
- Leaving the Old Neighborhood
- Hope for the Future
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