The Overwhelming Reality of Secondary Loss After Losing Your Spouse

​Secondary loss was a term completely foreign to me until I suddenly lost my husband in 2022. As if losing my husband wasn’t hard enough, now I had to learn to navigate another layer of grief, which included all the plans, dreams, community and daily life I had with my late husband. I grieved his absence at the dinner table, the trips we’d never take together, the quietness of coming home to an empty house, his love for our dogs, his excitement at the first snow of the season, and so much more. So, what is secondary loss and how does it impact grieving?

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