The Current 27:10 How a widow found out about her husband’s dark secrets When Jessica Waite's husband, Sean, suddenly passed away from a heart attack in 2015 while on a business trip to Houston, she was left in shock. But the Calgary writer's life would take another heartbreaking turn. The day after his funeral, she received a box of his personal belongings mailed from Houston, which led her to discover many devastating secrets he had kept from her — infidelity, drug abuse, compulsive spending, hidden debt and an addiction to pornography.
"It was just one shocking revelation after another. I felt extremely betrayed," Waite told The Current 's host Matt Galloway. "I went from having the rug yanked out with grief to then having it yanked out with an idea that my whole had been a lie, and like 'Was anything that this person ever said true?'" Jessica Waite, a writer from Calgary, is the author of the memoir The Widow's Guide to Dead Bastards, and a Camp Widow attendee.
(Phil Crozier ) Waites writes about this experience in her new memoir The Widow's Guide to Dead Bastards . She described attending Camp Widow in Toronto as a transformative experience. The annual event, which brings together people who have lost their partners, is billed as a weekend of emotional healing through activities like workshops, a banquet and dance.
The organizers say it is designed to help participants connect with others who have similarities in their losses, whether in terms of timing, cause of dea.
