How to cope after the death of your spouse -
the death of a spouse is one of the hardest things you will ever accept in life.
Difficulty: Hard
Time required: Varies
Here's how:
- Be good for you.
- Eat well and avoid too much alcohol, drugs, caffeine, sugar or tobacco.
- regular exercise, but take the time to sit down and breathe deeply.
- Maintain a regular schedule and get out of the house now and then.
- Cry.
- mail response and condolence letters. It's part of the healing process.
- Start a journal.
- Join a support group.
- Ask the funeral home for 6-8 copies of the death certificate.
- Keep Social Security, bank account and handy insurance numbers.
- Set up a file for copies of everything that has to do with the estate, including the notes of telephone conversations.
- deal with emptying drawers and closets. Do not let someone else do it for you. It is a necessary part of the grieving process. It may be helpful to have someone with you who can understand and share your memories and stories.
- bank change accounts. File insurance claims. Check on mortgages, credit or policies related to work, as well.
- Notifier social security, business associates, employees, organizations, banks, automatic saving, credit cards, bonds and securities, real estate securities and automatic journal, home insurance and personal needs.
- Stay in charge of your own life. Do not let the kids take over
Tips :.
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Avoid hasty decisions ... wait a year before selling the house, moving, or make major purchases. It is important to let go and move on with your life, but give yourself time.
- Allow time to get some of these things. If it is difficult to do, or a decision is hard to do, then wait. You will know when the time is right.
- Do not make the bills you are not sure until you check their authenticity. Keep out of paying medical bills until they are all in
What you need: ..
- The belief in yourself
- Time.
How to cope after the death of your spouse
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