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Jun 12, 2017 at 12:57pm
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Still Dealing with my Mom's Death in February, 2017
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Scifiwizard,
I lost my Mom
in February of this year (2017.)
She died as a result of illness
and advanced age
in her bed
in a nursing home.
(She would have been 90,
if she had lived to August, 2017)

The first month was challenging,
but I was distracted from my grief by being
a member of a local community play cast.

In the past month or so
the acting has subsided
and I have been left alone
with with my emotions.

Some days I do well.
Some days...not so well.
At times, I cry for apparently no reason,
but I know there is plenty of reason,
whether this most recent of losses
or the accumulation of losses throughout life
that I have not fully grieved.

I was quite stoic in my youth
and I became depressed as a result.
Now, I am working through "STUFF"
and I don't know the WHY of the tears.
I have been told I don't really need to know the WHY.
I simply need to experience the tears.

I have begun to have a realization,
regarding relationships
and the way I have learned
to navigate them more or less effectively.

When I bare my soul to someone,
even my new friends on WDC,
and there is a long silence that follows,
it feels like anger or loss of relationship.

Could this be a result
of experiencing grief
more fully?

Growing through
the dark experiences of life
seems to be an especially long,
even lifetime long,
process.

Thanks for having a place
where we can be real
and process our grief.

Be Blessed Always!


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