The disenfranchised : stories of life and grief when an ex-spouse dies / edited by Peggy Sapphire, MS Counselor ; commentary by Shirley Scott, MS Thanatologist.

Contributors' acknowledgments and dedications / Peggy Sapphire and Shirley Scott
Foreword / Darcy L. Harris, Ph. D. FT
Editor's preface / Peggy Sapphire, MS Counselor
Preface to commentaries / Shirley Scott, RN, MS, CT, Grief Counselor
Introduction / Dr. Kenneth Doka, Ph. D. Gerontology
Moving toward forgiveness
Harold / Rosemary Wyman
Rubber man / Anne Bower
Selected slides / Elizabeth Kerlikowske
Never given a name / James McGrath
"He's dead and I'm not"
When pawpaw's spearmint went to heaven / Linde Grace White
The absence of
/ Barbara Traynor
He's dead and I'm not / Anonymous
Missing you / Jean Gant
The ride / Kristina Grey
"
a change of worlds
"
Barking at the knocks / Bradley Brandts
Un-grieving a death / MM
Chronic and acute / Marion Cohen
The world cracking open-or living atop a cultural, emotional san andreas fault / Deborah Dashow Ruth
Then, a deep silence / Korkut Onaran
As the dust settles
Geography of a marriage / Barbara Hoffman
Jake / Denise Handlon
How i survived / Penelope Scambly Schott
Postmortem / Joyce Lombard
Ex-humation : digging up the past / Mary Kolada Scott
Afterword / Peggy Sapphire
Appendix: grief reactions to the death of a divorced spouse
Further readings
Contributors
Biographies
Index.