Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Widow Belle Gunness used personal ads in the early 1900s to lure men to her Indiana farm with promises of love and marriage When ...

Dear Sahaj: Should I tell my relatives the reason I’m deciding to move away? I’m a 65-year-old child-free widow, and I returned to my birthplace after a 30-year absence. Nine years ago, I felt “called ...

Widowed parents who enjoy close relationships with their adult children still struggle with loneliness, according to the first study of its kind. Published in the peer-reviewed journal Aging & Mental ...

DEAR ANNIE: I am an 85-year-old widow living alone. I have three children, five grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. In years past, when I was still driving, I would visit regularly and made it ...

For lonely bachelors in early 1900s America, a matrimonial ad from a prosperous Indiana widow seemed like the chance of a lifetime. “Comely widow who owns a large farm in one of the finest districts ...