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Join Joyce & Debbie Weiss, author of “Available As Is: A Midlife Widow’s Search for Love,” for a casual conversation you can walk to. Debbie and Joyce dive deep into the importance of connection and the difficulty of making friends as an adult. They also discuss what worked for Debbie in reinvesting in herself to create a life of love and connection after the loss of her husband.

video: Spotify   |   Audio only:  Apple podcasts  •  Google podcasts Debbie Weiss is the author of “Available As Is: A Midlife Widow’s Search for Love”. It’s her true story of losing her beloved husband at 50 to cancer and her struggle to find love again. It’s a very inspiring tale of finding oneself while plodding through a number of unfulfilling relationships with men that are struggling with their own demons. #dating #widow #DatingOver50 #DebbieWeiss #AvailableAsIs overfiftystartingover.com

Deborah Weiss Available As Is: Reinvention After Loss February 9, 2023 4 PM PST | 5 PM MST | 6 PM CST | 7 PM EST Article on namw.org In April of 2013, I lost my husband of 32 years. Soon after my loss, I enrolled in a writing class. Initially, I was looking for community and writing had always been a passion of mine. My late husband and I had led isolated lives so I

New York Times’ “Modern Love:” Try the Pastrami, Stay for the Polyamory

Article on nextavenue.org Once she discovered who she really was, and stayed firm in those convictions, it was easier to find love By Debbie Weiss January 20, 2023 Personal Perspectives In June of 2014 at 3:30 a.m., I decided to join J-Date, the self-proclaimed largest Jewish dating community worldwide, but it might have been the insomnia. George, my husband of 32 years, had died fourteen months ago and I wanted someone to have dinner with, to

Story by Debbie Weiss Running Away to Home – Part 1 The preceding is an excerpt from Available As Is: A Midlife Widow’s Search for Love published by She Writes Press. Copyright 2022. Used with permission. In the summer of 1973, I was nine. My world was suffused with color, the sunlight intensely yellow, the sky immeasurably blue, the pool turquoise, and the lawn a deep green. But my mom, Thalia, statuesque and curvy with auburn hair and

A Widow Writes Her Dating Profile Article on Residence 11 Marital Status: Widowed It’s 4 a.m. and I’m putting together my profile for JDate, the self-proclaimed “largest Jewish dating community worldwide.” My husband, George, died fourteen months ago. George was my high-school sweetheart, the strong man I curled up next to each night for thirty-two years. Now that George is gone, I don’t know who I am anymore. I’ve lost the me that I was when

Widow Warrior Interview Series. Widow Warriors – Debbie Weiss