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Title: I'm Grieving As Fast As I Can: How Young Widows and Widowers Can Cope and Heal by Linda Sones Feinberg ISBN: 0-88282-095-8 Publisher: New Horizon Press Pub. Date: June, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 (20 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Glimmer of hope in my darkest hour
Comment: This book is a Godsend. I'm 27 and my fiance, Mike died 7 months ago in his sleep of natural causes. Losing him has devestated me and changed everything in my world, forcing me to face things I never thought I would. This book is incredible and the author made me feel like she wrote this just for me. It has helped me understand how and way I am feeling the way I am and validating those feelings when you feel like no one could possibly understand. Thank you for this book!! I love you forever, Mike and will always miss you....
Rating: 4
Summary: worth reading
Comment: My wife died of cancer in 2001. One thing I realized when reading this book was how lucky I have been to have missed most of the incredibly callous behavior and remarks that young widows and widowers often seem to be treated to (the most shocking example I found in the book was that of a young man who lost his wife and child in childbirth and was told by a well-meaning person how "lucky" he was not to have gotten "stuck" with the kid). With the exception of my in-laws, everyone I know has been very supportive and tactful, and reading this book taught me to be thankful for that.
Of course, everyone's experience is different, but I found a number of things in this book that I could identify with, and suspect that all young widows and widowers would too. One thing I'd like the author to consider adding if she writes a revised edition of this book at some point is a more extensive treatment of the problems that widows and widowers experience in new relationships. The book is primarily about coping with the early stages of grief, about how to get to the point at which one is ready for a new relationship. But it does not go beyond this point. There is a passing reference to the fears young widows and widowers have as a result of "gloom-and-doom" statistics about failed second marriages, but it would be very helpful to have some analysis of why these relationships so often fail. Understanding these problems would probably help many readers - both widows/widowers and their partners - deal with them more effectively.
Finally, a recommendation for further reading is Elisabeth Kubler-Ross's On Death and Dying. While this classic book is certainly more useful before than after a death, I think it may help many who have already suffered a bereavement to understand their own feelings as well as what spouses who died after a long illness went through.
Rating: 5
Summary: Best Book for Young Widows/Widowers
Comment: I lost my husband when I was 33. It was 6 months after our wedding. I scanned several grief books, attended support groups, etc. All seemed geared to the "older" widow/widower. This book hits home. I found myself nodding in agreement on almost every page... about feelings, other people, etc. I felt this book was written directly for me. It also made me realize that there are other "young" people out there going through the same things I am. I recommend this book to any young person that has lost a spouse.
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Title: Finding Your Way After Your Spouse Dies by Marta Felber ISBN: 0877939322 Publisher: Ave Maria Press Pub. Date: 25 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: I Wasn't Ready to Say Goodbye: Surviving, Coping and Healing After the Sudden Death of a Loved One by Brook Noel, Pamela D., PH.D. Blair ISBN: 1891400274 Publisher: Champion Pr Ltd Pub. Date: March, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Getting to the Other Side of Grief: Overcoming the Loss of a Spouse by Susan J. Zonnebelt-Smeenge, Robert Devries, Robert C. De Vries, Smeenge de Zonnebelt ISBN: 080105821X Publisher: Baker Book House Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Widow to Widow: Thoughtful, Practical Ideas for Rebuilding Your Life by Genevieve Davis Ginsburg ISBN: 1555612261 Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: September, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Being a Widow by Lynn Caine ISBN: 014013025X Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: January, 1990 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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