The Ultimate Widower's Guide

THE REFERENCE and SELF-HELP BOOK EVERY WIDOWER NEEDS to READ!

THE ULTIMATE WIDOWER'S GUIDE: ADVICE FROM MEN is an easy-to-read, common sense reference and self-help book for widowers. Written in a warm, conversational manner, it compiles the insights, advice, and experiences of 21 men whose mission was to help new and not-so-new widowers adjust to widowhood.

Widowers interviewed by the author were confident their experiences could offer hope and encouragement to men widowed when their wife either succumbed to a terminal illness or died unexpectedly. The men quoted throughout the book are essential components of the support system widowers need to move forward in their lives.Widowers were focused and sincere as they candidly discussed their experiences and views on 24 topics including:

- Finding your inner strength

- Grieving

- Dealing with regrets

- Possible changes in family dynamics

- Paying bills and handling finances

- Re-entering society

- Choosing how to live your life

A journal section concludes each chapter, enabling the reader to reflect on what he's read and apply it to his unique situation.

The guide includes brief backgrounds of the men quoted and a comprehensive checklist to aid widowers in making important notifications, changes, and cancellations after their wife's death.

The widowers interviewed can personally relate to the range of emotions and complex issues widowhood entails. They've survived passing through the "tunnel of loss and grief" and want other widowers to realize it's possible for them to do the same.

Bonnie Merryfield is the author of So Now You're a Widow: Tips, Advice, and Stories from Widows to Widows, winner of a 2020 CIPA EVVY Award in the Colorado Independent Publishers Association's international competition.