Grieving Your Soul mate

🌿 A Gentle Way to Enter a New Year After Loss

Be Gentle with yourself going into a New Year with out your partner The beginning of a new year can feel complicated when you’ve lived through loss. While the world celebrates fresh starts and resolutions, your heart may still be carrying memories, longing, and quiet ache. For a long time, January felt heavy to me.Continue reading “🌿 A Gentle Way to Enter a New Year After Loss”

💜 How Journaling Helped Me Heal After Loss

When I lost my husband, Michael — my Rockstar Hubby — the silence in our home was deafening. The music that once filled every corner of our lives faded to a whisper, and I often found myself searching for pieces of him in the quiet moments. In those early days of grief, I couldn’t alwaysContinue reading “💜 How Journaling Helped Me Heal After Loss”

💜 Welcome — and Thank You for Being Here

Hello, dear friend. My name is Marlene Lynch, and this little corner of the internet was born out of love, loss, and the quiet courage it takes to rebuild a life. Several years ago, I lost my husband, Michael — my Rockstar Hubby. He was a gifted musician who filled our home with music, laughter,Continue reading “💜 Welcome — and Thank You for Being Here”

💫 Looking Back: My First Steps Through Grief

Before I open this space with a proper welcome, I want to take a quiet moment to look back. When I first began writing here, my heart was broken wide open. Losing my Michael — my soulmate, my “Rockstar Hubby” — changed everything. Writing became my way of breathing through the ache, of holding ontoContinue reading “💫 Looking Back: My First Steps Through Grief”

Trying to Navigate

It has been a few weeks since everyone has gone home and I’m trying to navigate life without you. So many things need to be done still. I have family still helping when I need this but still is all very overwhelming. You did so much for us. Trying to remember to do the littlestContinue reading “Trying to Navigate”

Planning the Celebration of Life

Now it’s time to plan the celebration of life. Were to have this Celebration when and how. The brothers started to gather pics and all other things for thid celebration. The venue was to be determined still. Hope we can find the right one. Which pic will we use for his Celebration so many thingsContinue reading “Planning the Celebration of Life”

Funeral Planning

So we went to the Funeral Home ,which a very dear friend pick out for me. Had the support of the brothers and sister in laws to go to the appointment and set up what needed to be done. The Funeral Person was explaining to us what had to be done and because of theContinue reading “Funeral Planning”

Day after Mike Passes Away

I had packed up our room at the Hospice and took every thing to my Brother in law and Sister in Law and I was going to stay there for few days. Everyone is so good helping and then helping me figure out the next things that had to happen. My Feelings on this DayContinue reading “Day after Mike Passes Away”

The Day before and the Morning Michael passed

By this time we had been in the hospice for a week and a bit. Michael could’t talk and he would just sleep and he was having a hard time breathing and he was clamy and breathing hard I had ask the nurse “Can you please help him with something” and they said “We dontContinue reading “The Day before and the Morning Michael passed”

The Hospice

As Michaels disease progressed at home I got a phone call at work ( Iwas working Partime ) that Michael it not doing well at home and its getting hard for everyone to handle now. Michaels Older brother had to take me down to living room and we had to make this next decision asContinue reading “The Hospice”