Transitioning from Well Spouse to Former Well Spouse PDF Print E-mail
by Elizabeth Dean Vanasse

Many Well Spouses expect that they will survive their ill spouse and thus become a Former Well Spouse (sometimes just called a


My guide expands on the readily available grief literature to share how some Formers feel that their grief process was different from that of widows and widowers who had never identified themselves as Well Spouses. Also, as many Well Spouses share that they feel like they are living in a separate world from the mainstream