About groups

About Widowed Village groups

Groups are a great way to meet folks like you here on Widowed Village. We recommend new members join a few groups as a way to introduce yourselves, and to make connections so that you'll find familiar friends in other parts of the site.

This site is open to the Internet, but some of our private groups include closed areas so that you can have some "offline" discussions, too. Please note: you can talk about any of these issues in the general discussion Forums as well.

Public groups include:

• Long-term Illness
• Suddenly Widowed (yes, you can join both -- we know things can be complicated)
• Born in the 40s or earlier
• Born in the 50s
• Born in the 60s
• Born in the 70s
• Born in the 80s
• Widowed in 2013   NEW :-(
• Widowed in 2012  
  
• Widowed in 2011
• Widowed in 2010
• Widowed in 2009
• Widowed in 2008
• Widowed in 2007
• Widowed in 2006
• Widowed 2002-2005
• Widowed 1995-2001
• Widowed before 1995
• Unwedded Widows and Widowers
  
• More than one loss (Multiple losses) [There's also a Discussion about multiple losses]
  
• Military Families
• Pregnant Widows

Private groups include:

(To join a private group, please request an invitation from any member).

• Widowed More than Once   NEW 2013
• People of Color   NEW 2013
• Widowed after Divorce   NEW 2013
• Survivors of Addiction and Substance Abuse (with private discussion area)     NEW
• 12-Steppers (with private discussion area)     NEW
• May-December relationships (with private discussion area)     NEW
  
• Men only (with private discussion area)
• Women only (with private discussion area)
• LGBT only (with private discussion area)
• Lesbians only (with private discussion area)    NEW 2013
  
• Suicide Survivors (with private discussion area)
• Public Losses
• Parenting: Babies and young children up to age 10 (with private discussion area)
• Parenting: Over age 10, teens, adult children (with private discussion area)
• Widowed without children

We also host these groups:

• WidVille Volunteers
• Camp Widow Alumni (for more information visit CampWidow.org)
  
• Charter Members