Susan Balcom Walton lost her husband to cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, she is sharing how connecting with other ...

DEAR ABBY: I lost my wife of 20 years four months ago after a prolonged illness. I retired at 62 and became her primary caretaker. The job of caretaker is endless and stressful, and yet rewarding. A ...

Widowers' membership in their established religions was instrumental in the widowers' coping with their wives' deaths. Membership, understanding of, and faith in stated doctrines provided hope.

You’ll Never Walk Alone” is a song heard frequently this time of year at graduations, but it could also be the theme song for ...

Grief over the sudden death of a partner leads 1 in 6 surviving partners to experience such severe psychological distress that they begin taking sedatives or antidepressants. If the death also results ...

Intense and unabashedly provocative, Friday’s “The Thing with Feathers,” a very theatrical English drama, demands that Benedict Cumberbatch aim for the stars to play a recent grieving widower. The ...

Dear Annie: Regarding “Lost at Potato Creek,” who lost his wife suddenly to cancer, no one can truly understand what he is going through except those who have experienced it themselves. When I lost ...

DEAR ABBY: I lost my wife of 20 years four months ago after a prolonged illness. I retired at 62 and became her primary caretaker. The job of caretaker is endless and stressful, and yet rewarding. A ...