Many of you wrote in regarding the newly widowed woman who stopped receiving invitations to couples’ gatherings. Here are a few letters that reflect this

The invisibility you feel often grows in proportion to how insecure other women are. If they perceive you as attractive or as a threat to their marriages, you’ll quickly find yourself being treated as if you don’t exist.

After my husband left me for someone else, our mutual friends stopped inviting me to their gatherings — only inviting him. One woman, “Sophie,” came to my dental practice with her boys for treatment.