Lessons For Life With A Funeral Director: Strategies to Strengthen Your Relationships & Inspiration to Transform Your Life

Lessons For Life With A Funeral Director presents strategies to strengthen relationships between funeral directors and their spouses, family and friends. It also offers inspiration for people who live life with a funeral director to love the life they’ve chosen together. Life with a funeral director is different. It’s unique. It’s hard. Those of us who have chosen this life are at the mercy of the most unpredictable element of life – death. - We manage time differently than other families. - We are alone – a lot. - We are as close to being single-parents as we can get, while we are still married. - Sometimes, one of our vehicles doesn’t have back seats! - We regularly sleep with the impending possibility of a pager or cell phone ringing in the night to summon our spouse or partner away for hours. - We float on the ebb and flow of a small business that cannot be bolstered by loyal family and friends (without grief involved). - We are watched by our neighbors and held to a higher standard than other small businesses in our communities. - We deal with the emotions and reality of death – every day. And despite the stability and strength of the industry, we rarely have access to others who understand our life. The only other people who “get it” are either our funeral director’s co-workers or our competition. And we’re not going to show them our granny panties. Lessons For Life With A Funeral Director is your resource to live a happy, full life with your funeral director. This book is a compilation of ideas, concepts and observations divided into sections to meet your unique needs: - You’ll be reminded of the good things in the "Pretty Sweet Perks" section. - If you're about to get married, a newlywed or dating someone in the industry, check out the "Things You Should Consider." - For everyone, there are 18 “Strategies For Your Best Life With A Funeral Director.” - There is even a section to help you to “Prepare Your Family and Friends” for your unique life with suggestions for ways to manage some of the toughest inter-personal conflicts that you'll face. - Finally, enjoy a "How-To" section that shares best practices for your funeral directors worst laundry, re-arranging funeral flowers for home use and more. We know that the divorce rate and the angry-marriage rate are high in our industry. Let's change that. Sometimes we struggle to keep our other relationships with family and friends strong and healthy because they just don't get it. Let's help them get it. We also know that our relationship with ourselves is impacted. Let's not forget who we are! We'll help each other get it. Lessons For Life With A Funeral Director is sure to inspire and support you to live your best life with a funeral director.