What we’re about
*PLEASE READ - You must share your late partners date of birth and death in your application if they are not an obvious presence on your Facebook page - this is the only way I can approve you and pass on our Private Facebook Group Details. Sorry! (A necessary evil due to past fraudulent activity, sadly).
This wonderful support group was born out of need when my beautiful husband died tragically and suddenly in July of 2013. It has been my saviour during this time (as have all of our members), and has undergone many changes, one of which is that we have a private Facebook group that you must join to be notified of any future catch ups or events, and of course to chat to our many members night and day.
The reason we still have the meetup.com subsidiary is so you people can google young Widow/Widower support groups in Victoria and find us, something you cannot do on Facebook.
When you apply via meetup, please share your Facebook profile name (and description of your picture if there are many of you) and if there is no way of us seeing evidence of your late partners passing, please include their full name and date of passing.
We ask this only so that we do not have fraudulent applications to join a very beautiful, supportive and private group.
In terms of who classifies as a Widow/Widower - this is ANYONE bereaved of their partner. Marriage/Children/Living together are not prerequisites.
A loss this great does not require a piece of paper to prove how great the loss was.
Thank you for reading, I look forward to approving your applications and sharing our Facebook information so that you can start talking to our wonderful cohort.
Emma.
