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, realises 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 allows others who are about to lose or already have lost a partner to find support, validation, recognition, and fellowship.
Key Features
- 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 widowers
Additional Information
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 the experiences of others.
Specifications
This book serves as a resource for bereaved gay men, psychologists, counsellors, and social workers in a society where the mourning process is generally a heterosexual, social construct.
