TTFA Anthologies: Two Letters- A Widow Remembers Her Husband With Two Letters

Thanks For Asking

Feelings & Co.

Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.7 • 13.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Subscribe to TTFA Anthologies here. 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 wrote to Jim after his death — and as she dealt with her own mental health issues and suicidality in the wake of it. When someone dies by suicide, people want it to be someone’s fault, so they can (hopefully) feel less like it’s their fault. But the thing is … it’s never anyone’s fault. _ Terrible, Thanks for Asking tells the real stories of real people who have lived through the terrible things in life. TTFA Anthologies are a curated collection of some of our best stories; released in seasons that focus on a specific topic. You can find our entire episode catalog ad-free on Apple+ or Patreon. – Find Nora’s weekly newsletter here! Also, check out Nora on YouTube. _ The Feelings & Co. team is Nora McInerny, Claire McInerny, Marcel Malekebu and Grace Barry. _ Find all our shows and our store at www.feelingsand.co. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by The Hartford, a leading provider of employee benefits and income protection products that is dedicated to standing behind U.S. workers to help them pursue their goals and get through tough times.
0:12.0	For more information about the
0:13.5	Hartford, visit the Hartford.com slash employee benefits. We've also got a link in
0:19.0	our show notes. I'm Norm McInerney and this is terrible. Thanks for asking. Today's episode is about suicide,
0:31.6	so I want you to just be aware of that as much as possible we try not
0:36.7	to say committed suicides kind of outdated language makes it you know builds shame
0:41.0	around it so we try to say died by suicide but our subject in
0:46.1	this episode does say committed suicide and a part of our job as
0:49.7	podcast makers is to let people use their own words. So this whole month of
0:57.0	September is about suicide. It's National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month.
1:01.8	So at TTFA we're going to be talking a lot about that.
1:07.3	For a lot of reasons, a lot of our listeners
1:10.0	have been affected by suicide.
1:12.2	I have been, people I love have been, and I know from my experiences and the experiences
1:19.6	of those around me and all of you who email us and reach out to us that it's a hard topic.
1:25.5	It's a hard topic to listen to.
1:28.2	It's a hard topic to talk about and to get other people to talk about.
1:31.9	So I get it, I get that.
1:33.2	And wherever you are, I hope that this episode is helpful in some way.
1:38.2	I hope that if you need comfort you find it, if you need insight, it offers it to you and that if you are
1:47.0	struggling with this topic that you know that you are not the only person I am as well and so is Annie.
2:00.0	I had moved into a new apartment. I had left our house. I wasn't able to stay there because it was
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