Grief and Loss Across the Lifespan, Second Edition

8 Middle Adulthood 221 in there or did we just fear it? Would we ever get out? Would we be found? I look for him now but can onl ...

222 Grief and Loss Across the Lifespan all gifted to me all submerged in a drawer After the funeral his photos surfacing so too ...

8 Middle Adulthood 223 I should come home right away. Then, I knew in my gut that my Dad had died, even though he was in good he ...

224 Grief and Loss Across the Lifespan a stranger who had no idea who I was (and she did not try to find out) or what I really w ...

8 Middle Adulthood 225 and follow-up calls to make. I was so worried about how I would make ends meet and it was nearly a month ...

226 Grief and Loss Across the Lifespan or pain, or fear? I could not know, but my mind kept going back to it like a sore tooth. ...

8 Middle Adulthood 227 and yet I kept myself moving one foot in front of the other. Grief came in waves—some good days and lots ...

228 Grief and Loss Across the Lifespan Divorce after a long-term marriage brings lots of loss and change, as well as potential g ...

8 Middle Adulthood 229 Yet, I had every right to be in a relationship postdivorce, and his angry actions only made selling the h ...

230 Grief and Loss Across the Lifespan was diminished and stifled for too many years. I not only found it, but I’m gaining stren ...

8 Middle Adulthood 231 I am standing on the mountaintop with the sun beaming brightly, warm- ing my very bones, and I am saying, ...

232 Grief and Loss Across the Lifespan some support. By this time, our oldest son was at university and our youngest had started ...

8 Middle Adulthood 233 mediating factor in their study. I certainly knew that mine had dropped dra- matically when I realized we ...

234 Grief and Loss Across the Lifespan disappointment, and chronic illness. In two of the readings above, Clare and Kudu used th ...

235 NINE Retirement and Reinvention Malinda was 65 when she officially retired from her position as a university professor. Mali ...

236 Grief and Loss Across the Lifespan ■ Describe how this life transition is different from those that come before and after. T ...

9 Retirement and Reinvention 237 “mattering” represents the centerpiece for adults navigating this third quarter of life. For th ...

238 Grief and Loss Across the Lifespan the second model, retirement loses its characteristic of a distinctive stage with prescri ...

9 Retirement and Reinvention 239 based. He worked to stay involved with a number of his favorite activities on a volunteer basis ...

240 Grief and Loss Across the Lifespan Although Schlossberg (2004) agrees with Ibarra that for many adults in this phase the “pa ...