Ep 125: What do you buy when your husband dies on your birthday?
Gee Thanks, Just Bought It!
Caroline Moss
4.6 • 912 Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2022
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
CW: This episode deals with death, depression and grief.
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Two weeks ago, Adriana Rojas asked the Gee Thanks! Facebook group a question: My husband had the audacity to die on my birthday in 2020 (dark humor is now kind of my thing). I’ll be turning 37 this year, which is the age he was when he died. It’s def f*cking with me a bit that I’ll now be the age was when he died. I need to indulge in some retail therapy (don’t worry, I participate in real therapy, too). What should I buy?
What came next was a real outpouring of support, community, love, and thoughtfulness. In the midst of that, a few people asked Adriana if they could send her a birthday card. We're opening that opportunity up to everyone, in hopes of bringing a little joy to an otherwise heavy day.
Adriana joins me to talk about her husband Andrew, the last two years of living without him, and the retail therapy she clung to the most. There's both tears and laughter, and I left our conversation feeling so inspired by her strength.
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| 0:00.0 | So, Hi everyone. Welcome to another episode of G Thanks Just Bought |
| 0:20.7 | at the podcast where we talk about what we just bought and what you might need to buy next. I'm your |
| 0:24.7 | host Caroline Moss and today I want to shine a little light on our Facebook community. |
| 0:30.0 | The Facebook group was started, I did not want it. I actually kind of thought like |
| 0:35.6 | Facebook groups can often be really toxic a lot of times people are like really rude because it's just like tons of strangers and people feel like they can be |
| 0:45.2 | really rude to strangers or not need to like I don't know I call it like kindifying their answers like people who just said like no or like no I hate that like I wanted I wanted a |
| 0:55.4 | place where people actually wanted to talk to each other and so from the early days of the |
| 0:59.3 | Facebook group I always said if it gets to a place where it's toxic or I dread like going in and looking |
| 1:07.4 | and seeing what people are talking about, I'm going to just shut it down and I'm not going |
| 1:10.9 | to think twice about it. |
| 1:12.4 | And luckily we have never ever really had a problem |
| 1:15.0 | and what the Facebook group has turned into |
| 1:17.0 | is a place where people from the G Thanks community can go |
| 1:20.0 | and say, I'm looking for a recommendation I have this coming up or I'm looking for the |
| 1:26.0 | best this and then people in our community weigh in and say like okay like I said like you |
| 1:31.4 | sound exactly like me and here's what works for me and you get all these different |
| 1:36.4 | options you know it's not and it's not about finding the best it's about finding options |
| 1:40.0 | so for the last couple years I've just watched tons and tons of requests for |
| 1:46.0 | recommendations come in and I've watched tons and tons of people respond to |
| 1:49.9 | those requests and really help people find what they love. |
| 1:53.3 | And then a couple weeks ago, there was a post in the Facebook group |
| 1:58.0 | that stopped me in my tracks, and it stopped a lot of other people |
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