TTFA Premium: Widowhood

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Losing a partner changes everything. These are stories from the archives of Terrible, Thanks for Asking, available ad-free for Apple+ subscribers, whose support makes our work possible.

07/09/2023 • TTFA PREMIUM ONLY

Bonus Episode: 7 Years of Love and Memory

Nora’s best friend Moe — our very first guest ever on TTFA — is back for a catch-up chat and to share reflections on raising her preteen son without her husband Andy, who died by suicide. You can listen to Moe’s original episode, “In Love and Memory,” wherever you’re listening to this episode. Thank you for being a TTFA Premium subscriber! We appreciate you.

53 min
24/02/2023 • TTFA PREMIUM ONLY

Bonus Episode: What Do I Do With My Husband’s Ashes? And Other Questions

Nora is back in the mailbag hot seat taking all your burning questions — and for the first time with TTFA Premium producer Megan to assist.

41 min
14/02/2023 • TTFA PREMIUM ONLY

Nora Needs a New Dad

Nora's dad died in 2014 from pretty much all of the cancers, leaving her mom Margaret without her life partner of almost 50 years ... and leaving Nora without a dad. Does a 40-year-old married woman with four children of her own need a father figure in her life? Nora thinks so! But what does Margaret have to say about dating in your 70s?

51 min
10/01/2023 • TTFA PREMIUM ONLY

Into The Void

One thing we know about grief is that it needs a witness. That inside every griever is a nearly uncontrollable urge to make the people around us understand what we had and what we have now. In this episode, we are all David’s witnesses.

29 min
15/11/2022 • TTFA PREMIUM ONLY

Army Wife

Death by suicide has long been a problem within the U.S. military, and not just among veterans: In 2020, suicide rates among active duty service members hit a six-year high. On August 28th, 2015, Heather’s husband Tyler became one of those statistics. Theirs is a story of friendship, of love, of family, of service and duty … and of trauma, domestic abuse and mental illness. If you’re experiencing thoughts of suicide, you can call or text 988. If you’re a victim of domestic violence and want out, you can call the National Domestic Violence hotline. You’re not alone.

47 min
15/11/2022 • TTFA PREMIUM ONLY

How Long Should Grief Last?

In March, a New York Times article made the rounds titled, “How Long Should It Take to Grieve? Psychiatry Has Come Up With an Answer.” And if that sentence alone makes you roll your eyes and want to punch an inanimate object, you’ve come to the right place. Nora read the article (twice) and had … some thoughts. So did her friend — and former TTFA guest — Brittany Freeman Jean-Louis. Note: In this episode, Nora refers to a previous TTFA episode called “Untying Knots.” Here, she refers to it as “Untangling Knots.” Untying? Untangling? Close enough, right? Resources: Grieving Shouldn’t Be a Privilege by Nora McInerny How Long Should It Take to Grieve? Psychiatry Has Come Up With An Answer by Ellen Barry

48 min
08/11/2022 • TTFA PREMIUM ONLY

Bonus Episode: Between Two Widows with Michael Allio

Michael Allio was a fan favorite on Katie Thurston’s season of “The Bachelorette,” applauded for the vulnerability he showed as he talked about losing his wife, Laura, to cancer and raising his son James without his mom. Losing a partner to cancer? Raising a young son on your own? Sounds familiar! Michael came across Nora’s TED Talk shortly after Laura died, and when he reached out to the podcast, we knew we had to get these two on a call together. That call became a TTFA Premium episode.

1h 19m
29/03/2022 • TTFA PREMIUM ONLY

Widowed*

Grief comes with so much judgment. Everybody is sure that there's a right way to do it, and only for a certain length of time. If our grief doesn’t neatly fit into a category, we worry that it’s illegitimate. Erin knows this judgment very well. She’s a widow … or is she?

45 min

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Losing a partner changes everything. These are stories from the archives of Terrible, Thanks for Asking, available ad-free for Apple+ subscribers, whose support makes our work possible.