UNTIL DEATH…. AND THEN WHAT?
Reflections on the new path ahead
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Introduction
When I sat down to write this collection of thoughts on widowhood, I had absolutely no idea where the chapters would take me. This was all uncharted territory. All I knew when I slipped into the frightening funk after the second anniversary of my husband’s death was that I had to do something to help myself climb out of it. Rather than spending money on counseling, writing became my therapy. I had to reexamine my new station in life in more detail; I had to analyze my feelings, rethink various concepts regarding widowhood and how I was or was not truly dealing with them. It was an intense six months of self-reflection. Now, seventeen chapters later, as I look back on what I have written, to the reflections and discoveries I have made, I feel better about my new chapter. These insights aren’t meant to be a tutorial on grieving; we each do it in our own way. Rather they are the result of a personal examination of how I have come to look at this uncharted path to a new normal of peace and happiness with the hopes that they could help someone else.
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Recently widowed and having endured all the anticipated and unanticipated emotional “firsts” that accompany this new state of life, Deanna thought she had finally weathered the storm of grief. But after the second anniversary of her husband’s death, she fell into a period of profound sadness she could not explain. What followed was six months of self-reflection on the ups and downs of widowhood. Until Death….And Then What is a personal account of the insights learned while navigating this new, uncharted path to a new normal of peace and happiness.
About the Author
Deanna Hurtubise is a former high school and university French teacher and still lectures on French history, language and travel. She is the author of two picture books, three French historic fiction chapter books and one Christian historic fiction book for children, one memoire, In Sickness and in Health, and a contributing author to an anthology of true love stories. She lives in Cincinnati with her three children and eight grandchildren.