This might be performed before marriage, and after childbirth, divorce and widowhood. Zita wore mourning black in Charles's memory throughout sixty-seven years of widowhood. At some point during her widowhood Joan swore a vow of chastity. Tara mentions the hardships of widowhood and prefers death to it. In grief-stricken widowhood she largely closed herself away from the world. The traditional contributions are sickness-maternity-insurance-disability-death, old age, widowhood, and accidents at work. Even though grief processing varies, there are ways to reduce the effects of widowhood. The state of having lost one's spouse to death is termed "widowhood". Polk faced small financial difficulties throughout her widowhood. The wife starts to enjoy her widowhood. The results provided evidence that suggest a causal relationship between mortality rate and widowhood. In the Ming dynasty, a tradition of virtuous widowhood developed. During her widowhood Joan became a patron of literature. In her widowhood Maria Alexandrovna continued to live in Coburg. In her widowhood, she lived most of the year in the South of France.