{"product_id":"gay-widowers-1","title":"Gay Widowers","description":"\u003cp\u003eA 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:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ehow homophobia can complicate a gay widower’s grieving and mourning \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ehandling financial and legal matters before and after death \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003especific mental health issues of gay widowers \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003edating again \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003esimilarities among gay widowers’responses to their partners’deaths \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003emaking time for your feelings rather than avoiding them \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003efinding love after or during bereavement \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003etrauma theory’s applications to gay widowers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54256024420696,"sku":"9780789003553","price":179.8,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780789003553_dceaf96d-f768-443c-948a-5d2ae413bbe4.jpg?v=1769015733","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/gay-widowers-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}