In this modified excerpt from our book, Lost My Partner-What’ll I Do? we offer some tips for coping if you are estranged or divorced from your deceased partner.
Despite whatever conflicts occurred, the death of a spouse/partner can be painful.
There are different issues that can affect your mourning process and may not be publicly acknowledged or supported such as:
• How family members reacted to the circumstances of your situation.
• Whether you had access to your partner during the final illness or the circumstances of the death and/or inclusion in funeral/memorial arrangements.
• Legal and financial complications involving property ownership, child custody or survivor benefits.
• Emotional unfinished business, especially any conflict as an aftermath of estrangement/divorce or lack of access to your partner around the time of the death.
• Lack of usual support from former family and/or friends.
In Part 2, we’ll give you ways to cope.
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