Ep #106: Being the Third Wheel

The Widowed Mom Podcast

Krista St-Germain

Mental Health, Grief, Deathofpartner, Education, Widowedmom, Deathofspouse, Widow, Lossoflovedone, Health & Fitness, Husbanddied, Self-improvement, Posttraumaticgrowth, Lifeafterloss, Overcominggrief

4.6 • 649 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Discover 3 ways believing you’re the third wheel is simply not useful, and 3 suggestions for how to deal with a situation like this. Widowhood is a hard enough experience as it is, without adding on thoughts that lead to us feeling more isolated and disconnected when all we truly want in that moment is to feel connected to those we love.

Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.coachingwithkrista.com/106

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Widowed Mom podcast, episode 106, being the third wheel.
0:10.3	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.
0:24.2	Here's your host, Master Certified Life Coach, Grief Expert, Widow, and Mom, Krista St. Germain.
0:32.7	Hey there. Welcome to another episode of the podcast. So I sent out an email about this. I just got back
0:40.1	from Las Vegas and took the boyfriend out there. Hadn't been in six years. And the last time I was
0:50.7	there was with my late husband, Hugo. So if you're on my email list,
0:55.0	you probably know this already. If you're not on my email list, get on my email list.
0:59.5	Then you won't have to wait weeks to find these things out because I record the podcast
1:03.1	several weeks in advance typically. But anyway, decided to go to Las Vegas as soon as I realized
1:09.8	I could get the COVID vaccine and feel comfortable
1:14.4	traveling, then we booked a trip to get out of town. And so I knew going into this trip
1:20.3	that there would be some awkward moments. I knew that I had a lot of memories in Las Vegas
1:25.4	with Hugo and I knew that I would see those memories, right,
1:30.5	in the streets and in the sights and in the sounds.
1:32.9	And I decided to go anyway.
1:35.8	I'm not going to let memories that I have with someone I loved who's no longer living
1:42.2	ruin my opportunities to make memories with someone who is living
1:47.2	that I also love. But I know it would be awkward. And I was fully prepared for that, but y'all,
1:53.4	you can't make this stuff up. You really can't. I totally just recorded before I left town the episode on grief grenades,
2:05.1	which by now you've probably already heard. But I was not expecting to have a grief grenade
2:11.1	in the dang airport. So if you know my story and you've listened to the podcast, you know that my late husband was hit by a drunk driver while he was trying to change the tire in my car.
2:26.1	And more specifically, I drove a silver Toyota Camry and I had a flat tire on it and Hugo pulled up in his Dodge Durango
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