Worried about how to react when a friend has lost a spouse or partner? Try avoiding the following, all of which have been reported to me by friends as extremely unhelpful.<\/p>\n
1\u2014Hey, nobody lives forever.<\/p>\n
2\u2014Don\u2019t you think it\u2019s time for you to move on?<\/p>\n
3\u2014God was running out of angels.<\/p>\n
4\u2014Life is for the living.<\/p>\n
5\u2014Sell your house–it\u2019s too full of memories.<\/p>\n
6\u2014She had a great life.<\/p>\n
7\u2014It could have been so much worse\u2014it could have been you!<\/p>\n
8\u2014You look so much nicer when you smile.<\/p>\n
9\u2014It was really his time.<\/p>\n
10\u2014Come on now, you\u2019re not the only one who\u2019s ever suffered a loss.<\/p>\n
11\u2014You have so much to live for!<\/p>\n
12\u2014Have you tried hot yoga?<\/p>\n
Lev Raphael is the author of eight comic mysteries and seventeen other books in a wide range of genres, including Writer’s Block is Bunk.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Worried about how to react when a friend has lost a spouse or partner? Try avoiding the following, all of which have been reported to me by friends as extremely unhelpful. 1\u2014Hey, nobody lives forever. 2\u2014Don\u2019t you think it\u2019s time for you to move on? 3\u2014God was running out of angels. 4\u2014Life is for the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[218],"tags":[987,988,989,864,238,985,990,216,991,992,986,993,98],"class_list":["post-2987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satire","tag-bereavement","tag-consolation","tag-consoling-words","tag-death","tag-death-and-dying","tag-dying","tag-funerals","tag-humor","tag-loss","tag-loss-of-a-loved-one","tag-mourning","tag-mourning-a-loved-one","tag-satire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2987"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3068,"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987\/revisions\/3068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}