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These are people who felt trapped in a bad marriage or onerous care-giving duties and widowhood offered relief and escape. The old paradigm would have seen this absence of grief as emotional inhibition or a form of denial, but in our view, these are people for whom bereavement serves as the end of a chronic source of stress.

Deborah Carr

The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.

John Gay

When you hear the stats that the average age of widowhood is 58, it's scary.

Dee Lee