All at once you may have lost your life’s partner, lover, father or mother of your children, breadwinner, confidant, your best friend. So much of your time, of your own history has been centered around this one person. Where do you go from here? Excerpted from the book, "Hope for Bereaved: Understanding, Coping and Growing Through Grief"

Writer Paul Bennett's wife, Bonnie, died in 2002. Bennett explores his experiences of grieving his wife of 20 years in his book, "Loving Grief." This excerpt describes the powerful impact of creating a simple ritual.

Hospicare volunteer Elaine Mansfield's reflection on the first wedding anniversary spent without her husband of 40 years.

Hospicare volunteer E. Kimball "Kim" Milling explores the emotions he felt after the death of his wife, Kay, and identifies some very different ways he found support. He wrote this a year and a half after her death.

E. Kimball "Kim" Milling writes of the new emotional and intellectual territory he forged after the death of his wife, Kay. These reflections were written three and a half years after her death.