by Soo-Inn Tan | Jun 7, 2010 | 2010, Articles, Family, Life Issues, Suffering, Widowhood
When Bernice and I visit a newly widowed friend, we will invariably be asked, “how long will it take?” No explanations needed. We know precisely what is being asked. How long before one gets over the crippling, agonising pain of loss? How long before life...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Oct 6, 2008 | 2008, Articles, Family, Parenting, Widowhood
We live in a time of fatherless children. More and more, children grow up in fatherless families. Some lose their fathers through tragedies like fatal accidents or killer diseases. A growing number are victims of parents who divorce, usually ending up with their...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Sep 15, 2003 | 2003, Articles, Death & Grief, Family, Life Issues, Widowhood
I am reluctant to speak. I look at you and I have some idea of what you are going through. More than that, I have some idea of what you will be going through. Ten years after losing my wife I am just beginning to get some feel of the solo dance we need to learn after...