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Room for Two
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Complete List of Abel's Widower Wednesday Column
2014
January 1 | Room for Two Chapter 1
January 8 | My Widower Has Anger Issues
January 22 | Book Review: Unremarried Widow
February 5 | Our Engagement Story
February 12 | Ask Marathon Girl
February 19 | Ask Marathon Girl II
February 26 | Two Timing Widowers
March 5 | Can't Buy Me Love
March 12 | Don't Assume. Ask.
March 19 | Book Update
April 2 | I Want to Do the Right Thing
April 9 | Book Update 2
April 16 | The Ultimate Dating Guide for Widowers Cover
April 30 | A Widower with Benefits
May 7 | Excuses, Excuses, Excuses
May 14 | The Accidental In-Law
May 28 | Did I End Things Too Soon?
June 25 | Online Dating Profiles
July 16 | Second Place
August 6 | Hey Jealousy
August 27 | Out-of-Control Teenage Daughters and Widowers
September 10 | Trigger Warnings
September 17 | Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend
2013
January 2 | Don't Waste Your Life
February 6 | Valentine’s Day and Marriage
February 13 | How to Talk to a Widower
February 20 | Life with a Widower Cover
February 28 | Chapter 1: What You Permit, You Promote
March 6 | Life with a Widower Now Available
March 13| Medicating Grief
March 20 | The Late Wife’s Breasts Are Bigger Than Mine
March 27 | Dating and Wedding Rings
April 3 | Love the Second Time Around
April 10 | Wanting to Date Again
April 17 | Gifts for a Widower
April 24 | Finances, Prenups, and Wills
May 1 | Widowers, Children, and Blending Families
May 8 | Becoming One
May 15 | What I Learned at Boot Camp
May 22 | Let’s Be Friends!
May 29 | Guilt, Boundaries, Consequences, and Parenting
June 5 | Guilt, Boundaries, Consequences, and Parenting, Part II
June 12 | Telling Women I'm a Widower
June 19 | Does my Widower Need Professional Help?
June 26 | Looking for Stories
July 3 | Guest Post: Are you Ready to Date a Widower?
July 10 | The Importance of Communication and Support
July 17 | Grief and Culture
July 24 | Life with a Widower Excerpt: When It’s Over, It’s Over: How to Avoid Getting Burned Again
July 31 | Honoring the Late Wife
August 7 | Filling the Hold vs. Falling in Love
August 14 | Leading by Example
August 21 | I Said "Yes!" When I should have Said "No!"
August 28 | Survivor Guilt
September 4 | LTS
September 11 | I’m Marrying a Widower in Two Weeks. Help!
September 18 | Divorced vs. Single vs. Widowed
September 26 | Podcast: Getting it Together After Loss
October 2 | Social Media and Public Grief
October 16 | How Joe Biden, Thomas Edison, Pierce Brosnan, and Paul McCartney got their Groove Back, Part 1
October 23 | How Joe Biden, Thomas Edison, Pierce Brosnan, and Paul McCartney got their Groove Back, Part 2
November 20 | Be Grateful
November 27 | I’m a Secret from the In-Laws!
December 4 | Stay Classy
December 11 | The Widower Wants to Get Back Together. What Should I Do?
2012
January 4 | Call For Marrying a Widower Stories
January 11 | What if She Dies?
January 18 | Photos of Hope
January 25 | Remembering the Past, Embracing the Future
February 1 | Cutting Your Losses
February 8 | Dating a Widow
February 15 | The Wrong Question
February 22 | Forgive and Forget
February 29 | Leap of Faith
March 7 | Testing the Water
March 14 | Cover Suggestions
March 21 | Reprise
March 28 | Abundance vs. Scarcity
April 4 | How to Talk to a GOW
April 11 | Giving Books to Widowers
April 18 | Marrying a Widower Chapter 1
April 25 | A Book for Widowers?
May 2 | The Love of My Life
May 9 | Bad Talking the Late Wife
May 16 | A Different Emotional Place
May 23 | Widower Movies
May 30 | Awkward!
June 6 | How to Flirt with a Widower
June 13 | Stop Acting like a Victim
June 20 | All Your Life
June 27 | Writing About Loss
July 4 | Independence Day
July 11 | Facebook and the Late Wife
July 18 | What It's Like Dating a Widower
July 25 | Positive Things about Dating a Widower
August 1 | Widowers and Ultimatums
August 8 | Widowers in the News
August 15 | Go On
August 22 | Call for Topics
August 29 | Sex with the Late Wife
September 12 | It Doesn't Matter How She Died
September 19 | 5 Reasons You Shouldn't Get a Memorial Tattoo
September 26 | Women, Widowers, and Insecurity
October 3 | Friends Who Still Grieve
October 10 | 5 Questions
October 17 | Man Up and Be a Dad
October 24 | Man Up and Be a Dad Part 2
October 31 | Secret Relationships
November 7 | Making New Dreams
November 14 | Lawsuits, Forgiveness, and Moving On
November 21 | Where to Spend the Holidays
November 28 | The Widower, His Children, and Christmas
December 5 | Why You Should Watch Go On
December 12 | Erasing a Widower's Past
December 19 | Different Kinds of Loss
2011
January 5 | How Long Does it Take for a Widower to Move On
January 12 | Avoiding the Late Wife's Family
January 19 | Second Chances
January 26 | Where to Bury the Second Wife
February 2 | Widowers Wearing Wedding Rings
February 9 | Lying Widowers
February 16 | Dating a Widower 101
February 23 | Grief Counseling
March 2 | Starting a New Life
March 9 | Memorial Tattoos
March 16 | Translating Widower Behavior
March 23 | Dating a Widower with Minor Children Part 1
March 30 | Dating a Widower with Minor Children Part II
April 6 | The Late Wife's Facebook Page
April 13 | Share Your Dating a Widower Story
April 20 | Traveling with a Widower
April 27 | 5 Dating a Widower Questions
May 4 | Redefining Relationships
May 11 | Never Settle
May 18 | Dating a Widower Discussion Boards
May 25 | Feeling Like a Mistress?
June 8 | The 6-Week Drop Off Curve
June 15 | Father's Day
June 22 | How She Died
June 29 | No Going Back
July 6 | Subtitle Help
July 13 | A Widower's Heart
July 20 | Opening Your Heart
July 27 | Wedding Receptions
August 10 | Companionship vs. Relationships
August 17 | Dating a Widower Chapter 1
August 24 | The Sainted Late Wife Part I
August 31 | The Sainted Late Wife Part II
September 7 | Pick Up the Phone
September 14 | The Late Wife's Friends
September 21 | Widower Times Two
September 28 | Selfish Grief
October 5 | Parenting and Grief
October 12 | Work and Grief
October 19 | Widowers and Hookers
October 26 | Listen to Your Gut
November 2 | Where to Spend the Holidays
November 10 | 10 Years Later
November 16 | Running with the Dead
November 23 | Holiday Decorations
November 30 | Giving Gifts
December 7 | Alone for the Holidays
December 14 | Don't Call Him Back
December 21 | Presents for the Late Wife
2010
October 20 | He Keeps Talking about the Late Wife
October 27 | Sleeping with a Widower
November 3 | Dealing with the Late Wife's Family
November 10 | Dealing with the Widower's ADULT Children
November 17 | Dating Widowers with Children
November 24 | Moody Holiday Widowers
December 1 | Remembering the Late Wife during the Holidays
December 8 | Making New Holiday Traditions
December 15 | Why do Widowers Start New Relationships so Quickly?
December 22 | Long Distance Relationships













