A recent gay widower may find that once the shock and initial
confusion of losing his partner is overcome, there are still many
hard, lonely, and overwhelming stages of grief to be worked
through. Often, the bereaved feels isolated, and looking around for
comfort, realizes that he doesn t have many resources to turn to,
but Gay Widowers: Life After the Death of a Partner is a start. By
offering first-person accounts of becoming a widower, this book,
the first of its kind, allows others who are about to lose or
already have lost a partner to find support, validation,
recognition, and fellowship. Its editor and contributors hope that
by sharing their stories of loss, pain, and bewilderment, they will
help others in mourning as well as make one more step forward in
their own healing.Men of different ages and ethnic, religious,
geographic, and economic backgrounds join together in Gay Widowers
to remind other gay widowers that they are not alone and that their
feelings of pain, anger, and emptiness are normal and legitimate.
Not solely a book about life after the loss of a partner to AIDS,
this book is about rebuilding life as a bereaved gay man,
regardless of the cause of your partner s death. You will find
encouragement for moving your life forward, without shutting your
memories away, as you read about: how homophobia can complicate a
gay widower s grieving and mourning handling financial and legal
matters before and after death specific mental health issues of gay
widowers dating again similarities among gay widowers'responses to
their partners'deaths making time for your feelings rather than
avoiding them finding love after or during bereavement trauma
theory s applications to gay widowersBy bringing forth these
stories, Gay Widowers offers bereaved gay men, psychologists,
counselors, and social workers--in a society where the mourning
process is generally a heterosexual, social construct--a clinical
overview of the psychodynamic issues relevant, and perhaps unique,
to the mourning process of gay men.
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