Widowers

I strongly agree that military housing should not allow the general public in ever, and it is an outstanding idea to give preference to wounded warriors and widows/widowers. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Lund had conducted several longitudinal surveys of widows and widowers over the preceding two decades, and concluded that men and women shared the same range of emotions at similar levels of intensity and with similar frequency. ❋ Ruth Davis Konigsberg (2011)

Although grief counselors almost invariably discourage medication, aside from perhaps some Ambien to help someone sleep or the occasional Xanax, Zisook and others have run small trials using Wellbutrin, Zoloft, and Lexapro on depressed widows and widowers and found significant improvement in depressive symptoms, along with mild improvement in the intensity of grief. ❋ Ruth Davis Konigsberg (2011)

A fixed sum will be available for each veteran, or the widows or widowers of veterans, towards the cost of their visit. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Most of my clients have been widows, widowers and injury victims. ❋ Don McNay (2012)

Bonanno divided his sample of widows and widowers into two groups: people who had complicated grief and people who were asymptomatic. ❋ Ruth Davis Konigsberg (2011)

I agree that our wounded warriors and widows/widowers deserve to be above J.Q.P. Posted by: ❋ Unknown (2009)

Ray Schmuelling and the other widows and widowers of Young Widow.net graciously allowed me to tag along on their Widowbago weekend. ❋ Ruth Davis Konigsberg (2011)

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, as of 2009 there were 13.3 million widows compared to 2.8 million widowers, or a ratio of about 4.7 women for every man. ❋ Ruth Davis Konigsberg (2011)

Why do male widowers get remarried more frequently and more quickly than female widows? ❋ Ruth Davis Konigsberg (2011)

Widows and widowers of WWII veterans are also eligible, in most cases. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The emotive approach presented a problem for a lot of bereaved men, however, particularly widowers of a certain generation. ❋ Ruth Davis Konigsberg (2011)

Real people -- widows, widowers, surviving dependents, and people with disabilities, depend on Social Security. ❋ Janice Hahn (2011)

In order to figure out the answer, two conditions about the research had to be met: First, the widows and widowers in the sample had to be compared to a control group of married women and men. ❋ Ruth Davis Konigsberg (2011)

George Bonanno has found that not only is it normal for widows and widowers to smile and laugh when describing their relationship to the deceased, but that those who were able to do so six months after the loss were happier and healthier fourteen months out than those who could only speak of the departed with sadness, fear, or anger. ❋ Ruth Davis Konigsberg (2011)

Canadian psychologist Tracey Waskowic surveyed seventy-seven widows and widowers ranging in age from forty-one to ninety-seven and found that securely attached people were less angry, less socially isolated, and less prone to guilt, despair, and rumination which in itself is thought to perpetuate depressed moods than insecurely attached people. ❋ Ruth Davis Konigsberg (2011)

German psychologist Martin Pinquart surveyed over four thousand people aged fifty-three to seventy-nine and found that divorced men and women reported feeling more lonely than widows or widowers. ❋ Ruth Davis Konigsberg (2011)

But one study of thirty widows and widowers conducted by the husband-and-wife research team Wolfgang and Margaret Stroebe of Utrecht University in the Netherlands in 1991 found that widows who avoided confronting their loss were not any more depressed than widows who “worked through” their grief. ❋ Ruth Davis Konigsberg (2011)