Grief is not just a series of events, or stages or timelines. Our society places enormous pressure on us to get over loss, and to get through the grief. But how long do you grieve for a husband of forty years, a teenager killed in a car accident or by suicide or a three-year-old child? […]
Time doesn’t heal everything, but without a doubt, it offers perspective. By the passing of time and with new experiences along our road, we distance ourselves from painful events in some way. This brings us to the point where we either have a defeatist attitude or an attitude of overcoming. Time tells and also helps[…..]
The answer to this question is NO. The death of a loved one marks us and breaks us, and, inevitably, changes us: we lose parts of our lives – the parts that we shared with that person. We mature in some aspects; We recover our value system; we give importance to different things and we[…..]
You need to put this behind you. It was not meant to be. I thought you would be more upset. He brought this on himself. Everything happens for a reason. It is not good to visit the grave so often. Others have it worse than you. Are you over her yet? She’s been gone a[…..]