Life with a Widower: Overcoming Unique Challenges and Creating a Fulfilling Relationship (Dating a Widower)

You’re in a Serious Relationship with a Widower. Now what?

Loving a widower isn’t like dating someone who’s divorced or simply single. You’re stepping into a story that began before you and which hasn’t fully ended. His late wife lingers in his heart, his home, and sometimes in the eyes of his kids, family, and friends. So how do you know if he’s ready to love again? If he is, how do you build a future together without getting lost in the past?

This honest, practical guide gives you the clarity and confidence to deal with the special challenges associated with dating a widower. Inside, you’ll discover:

• How to tell if he’s emotionally available or mired in sorrow
• When to be patient and when to walk away.
• How to handle his kids, in-laws, and friends who might not be ready for you.
• What to do with the late wife’s belongings.
• How to create your own space, your own relationship, and your own future.
• How to protect your heart without shutting down.

Written by remarried widower and relationship coach Abel Keogh, this book delivers no-nonsense advice and hard-won insight from someone who’s been there and helped thousands of women get the answers they need. It also includes over 20 stories from women who have traveled this journey. If you’re tired of second-guessing where you stand and ready to find out whether your relationship with a widower has a future, this book will show you the way forward.

At the age of 26, Abel Keogh unexpectedly found himself a young widower. When he decided to start dating again he looked in vain for resources that could help him guide him through the dating waters and open his heart to someone else. He found nothing. As he began blogging about his experiences, women dating widowers began emailing him asking for his thoughts on their situations. As the numbers of emails increased, Abel started writing a weekly dating a widower advice column called Widower Wednesday as well as the books Dating a Widower: Starting a Relationship with a Man Who's Staring Over and Marrying a Widower: What you Need to Know before Tying the Knot. Abel is also the author of the memoir Room for Two-the story of the year of his life following his late wife's suicide-and the novel The Third. He and his wife Julianna are the parents of three boys and two girls. Learn more at www.abelkeogh.com.