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326. Emotional Support Vacuum
What is the object that still reminds you of your dead loved one? For Nora, it’s her dead husband’s vacuum. This is an excerpt from an episode of Terrible, Thanks…
July 26, 2024
From The Archives: Ripped From the Headlines
Jamie Hahn was 29 years old when she was murdered by Jonathan Broyhill — the guy who had been the best man in her wedding to her husband, Nation.
July 11, 2023
48. Ryan’s Song
A listener shares a song her husband wrote and sang with their youngest before he died.
July 4, 2023
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…
February 14, 2023
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…
January 10, 2023
Between Two Widows
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…
November 8, 2022
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…
May 17, 2022
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…
March 29, 2022
Tell Me About Them
When someone we love dies, we become the vessels responsible for carrying their memory forward. The people we love stay alive in the big things, of course … but in…
March 1, 2022
We’re Supposed to Be Four
It’s the stuff of romantic comedies: Man meets woman as they’re boarding a flight. The two quickly discover they share many similarities and go on to chat for hours. There’s…
January 12, 2022
Happyish Holidays 2020
This episode features conversations with people doing the best they can in difficult circumstances. Like Dr. Lucy Kalanithi, whose husband Dr. Paul Kalanithi was a notable and rising brain surgeon…
November 24, 2020
For The Next Ten Minutes
When you believe that love will never, could never happen to you, it feels like a miracle when it finally does. This is the story of a young man named…
March 24, 2020
I See Big Things For You
Pam and Steve have just gotten married and are getting ready to celebrate with friends and family at their upcoming wedding reception in just a few days … but first,…
February 25, 2020
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Two Letters
This is an episode about two letters. One of those is the letter Jim left for his wife, Annie, before he died by suicide. The second is the letter Annie…
September 4, 2018
