Welcome to the Widowed Mom Podcast, episode 271, the end of dating again as a widow.

Welcome to the Widowed Mom podcast, the only podcast that offers a proven process to help you work through your grief to grow, evolve, and create a future you can truly

look forward to. Here's your host, Master Certified Life Coach, Grief Expert, Widow, and Mom,

Krista St. Germain.

Hey there, welcome to another episode of the podcast. We're going to talk about dating again.

I realized I haven't talked about dating again in a while. So before we jump into that, I will tell you,

it is hot here. It's probably hot where you are too, but it is hot here. And I'm actually loving it

because I have a pool. It's an expensive pool. I don't love that part, but I do love sitting out in the

pool. And I've done such a good job this summer of making time to actively pursue pleasure in the way of getting in the pool. I didn't do that the first year I lived here. I didn't get in the pool one time. It's something I've been really working on. I want to

encourage you to work on it too. Where can you create pleasure for yourself in the summer?

Where can you give yourself permission to experience more pleasure that maybe you aren't? What could

that look like for you? And a little disclaimer before we start this episode, you'll typically hear me say

spouse, probably in this one, but I just want you to know that I really don't mean just spouse. I mean your partner,

your person, you're human. It doesn't matter to me if you were married. It doesn't matter how you

identified as whatever labels you give it,

your person. Okay. So even when I say spouse in this episode, just let that be your person, all right?

And if you like this episode of the podcast, you might want to go back and listen to how to know

if you're ready to date again, which is episode 42. And if you're having issues where your kids might not be

approving of you dating or you anticipate that might happen, even if your children are grown and

you have grandchildren, this happens too. Then you might go listen to episode 92, which is called

dating when kids don't approve. But in this one, what I wanted to talk about is the and of dating. I get a little mad when people

suggest false binaries in the dating experience of widows, especially when they haven't been

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