For partners grieving the loss of a spouse to cancer, Valentine’s Day can be particularly painful; which makes Duane ‘Dog’ Chapman’s touching Valentine’s Day tribute to his wife, Beth, feel especially bittersweet. “A lot of valentines days [sic] memories that will last forever,” he writes on Instagram. The post includes a montage of photos and videos of Beth Chapman — who died of lung cancer on June 26, 2019 — set to music.
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“All holidays are hard, but on Valentine’s Day, we are bombarded with this idea that we should be celebrating love,” says grief counselor Claudia Coenen, in an interview with the on the Mindfulness and Grief Institute. Even at the bank, Conen notes, you get “hearts strung up over the mortgage rates.”
Cohen, author of Shattered by Grief: Picking up the Pieces to Become WHOLE Again, has lived through it herself: “The [tv] commercials with elderly couples holding hands and walking off into the sunset? When you’ve lost your spouse, this is horrible.”
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Friends and family, who may have been attentive from Thanksgiving to New Year’s may not recognize that Valentine’s Day has the power to stir up fresh feelings of loss for a surviving spouse.
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As Russell Friedman, co-author of The Grief Recovery Handbook, wrote in Psychology Today: “Even surrounded by family and friends, they may feel isolated, alone, and as if no one understands,” he wrote. “And those feelings can extend long past the first year.”
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Read MoreFor partners grieving the loss of a spouse to cancer, Valentine’s Day can be particularly painful; which makes Duane ‘Dog’ Chapman’s touching Valentine’s Day tribute to his wife, Beth, feel especially bittersweet. “A lot of valentines days [sic] memories that will last forever,” he writes on Instagram. The post includes a montage of photos and videos of Beth Chapman — who died of lung cancer on June 26, 2019 — set to music.
RELATED: Duane ‘Dog’ Chapman Spills All, from Plans for a New TV Show to His Grief after Beth Chapman’s Death from Cancer
Read More “All holidays are hard, but on Valentine’s Day, we are bombarded with this idea that we should be celebrating love,” says grief counselor Claudia Coenen, in an interview with the on the
Mindfulness and Grief Institute. Even at the bank, Conen notes, you get “hearts strung up over the mortgage rates.”
Cohen, author of Shattered by Grief: Picking up the Pieces to Become WHOLE Again, has lived through it herself: “The [tv] commercials with elderly couples holding hands and walking off into the sunset? When you’ve lost your spouse, this is horrible.”
RELATED: “I Watch a Video Every Day Just to Remind Me What a Wonder Lady Beth Is”: As Fans Mourn Beth Chapman’s Death, The Chapman Family Invites Them to View Happy Memories On Social Media
Friends and family, who may have been attentive from Thanksgiving to New Year’s may not recognize that Valentine’s Day has the power to stir up fresh feelings of loss for a surviving spouse.
RELATED: Showtime Hit ‘Ray Donovan’ Tackles the Darker Side of Cancer and Grief in Latest Episode
As Russell Friedman, co-author of The Grief Recovery Handbook, wrote in Psychology Today: “Even surrounded by family and friends, they may feel isolated, alone, and as if no one understands,” he wrote. “And those feelings can extend long past the first year.”
Learn more about SurvivorNet's rigorous medical review process.
Constance Costas is a writer for SurvivorNet.
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