So sorry for your loss I can’t imagineI can’t remember honestly I think I have blocked a lot out. I do think esp when you have kids there is an big element of “you’ve just got to get on with it” I haven’t grieved properly because for me I made a promise to my kids that I would do everything to make sure they were ok into adulthood. So we got up and we got on -but yeah there were extremely tough times, kids saying they didn’t want to be here anymore and me crying my eyes out because my kids lives weren’t meant to be like this.
Because they have a terminal illnesss and there are not really any treatments that for me made it easier to accept his passing because there just wasn’t anything that could be done for him. If he’d had a cancer that was treatable where others had survived and he hadn’t I would have found that a lot more difficult to accept. I just reason it as this was always going to happen to him, it was his fate.
To an extent I suppose I understand why she may focus just on herself because you do defo mourn for not only the person you have lost but the life that you yourself have lost. I even cry about my career because I’m now limited in the jobs I can do. Superficial but it’s not wrong because it’s something unexpected that happened to us and we are now living a life that we can’t escape.
I wouldn’t have gotten into a relationship though after such a short time. I doubt I ever will as I still consider myself married, I know the children will also never accept my being with anyone else and that’s ok because to them it’s mum and dad forever despite a death. (That’s not to say I’m going to live like a nunbut I’m a lot further down the line that her).
A lot of aspects of her behaviour are not wrong, but they are exaggerated. I don’t think it’s right that after less than a year she’s framed herself as this bereavement expert. Yes she’s more expert than a lot but she knows tit all within that small amount of time. Her self promotion and positivity tit is all wrong though.
the meeting with the widow group seemed so forced like she definitely thought it was beneath her and she didn’t want to be there