346. Am I Ready to Love Again? Four Myths Widows Believe About Dating
The Widowed Mom Podcast
Krista St-Germain
4.9 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
When you've lost your person, the question of whether you're ready to love again can stir up so many emotions all at once.
In this episode, I explore this tender question that might be quietly lingering in your mind, whether you've said it out loud or not.
Join me this week to discover why feeling sad about your person's death doesn't mean you're not ready for another relationship, and how wanting love has nothing to do with how much you loved your person. Most importantly, you'll learn what readiness actually looks like so you can answer this question in a way that feels aligned with who you want to be.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Widowed Mom Podcast, Episode 346, Am I Ready to Love Again? |
| 0:05.8 | Four Myths Widows Believe About Dating. |
| 0:11.0 | 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 |
| 0:23.6 | forward to. Here's your host, Master Certified Life Coach, Grief Expert, Widow, and Mom, Krista |
| 0:31.3 | St. Germain. Hey there, welcome to another episode of the podcast. Today I want to talk about a question I hear all the time. And it might be quietly lingering in the back of your mind, whether you've said it out loud yet or not, which is, am I ready to love again? It's a question that can stir up so many emotions for widows. guilt, confusion, hope, shame, fear, repulsion, sometimes all at once. |
| 0:59.6 | So, in today's episode, I want to help you explore this question with curiosity, not pressure, |
| 1:06.1 | and with some compassion and not judgment. We'll look at four common myths about love after loss, |
| 1:13.3 | what readiness might actually look like for you and how you can begin to answer this question |
| 1:18.7 | in a way that feels aligned with who you want to be in this next chapter of your life. |
| 1:24.4 | First, a little update from my world. I'm recording this the day after my holiday break, so |
| 1:29.3 | I'm not quite back in the groove yet. I actually almost forgot to do it. I was carrying on about my |
| 1:35.0 | day and about to shut down and I went, oh, haven't done the podcast for next week. So I'm back, |
| 1:41.9 | I'm in it. Here we go. Holidays were amazing, fairly calm, |
| 1:45.8 | all things considered. My daughter's home from Argentina again. It was the first holiday that we've |
| 1:51.3 | had, winter holiday that we've had in my new house. And also relative to this episode, |
| 1:56.9 | I am dating again. I will have more to say about that in future episodes, but right now I'm going to |
| 2:01.6 | keep the details a little bit close. But this episode feels really timely for me because it's |
| 2:07.2 | something that I recently considered. So, you know, Hugo died nearly 10 years ago, August 1st, |
| 2:11.8 | 2016, took me several years before I decided that I wanted to date again. And then I did. |
| 2:16.9 | Got into another |
| 2:17.8 | relationship. Fast forward five years. And last spring, that relationship ended. And it ended in a way |
| 2:23.5 | that wasn't super fun. And I'll leave it at that. But it was not particularly enjoyable. I did not |
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