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I'm so sorry, I lost my Dad 3 years ago and it has been hard to deal with. He had Alzheimer's so I did have time to adjust to the fact that he was going to be gone. In fact it was a series of small deaths along the way. Go through the grief process it takes about a year. You will always miss him but it does get less painful.
Tony, I'm so sorry you are still in pain. It does get better with time. Today is the six months anniversary of when my husband died so I know what this day means to you.
Tony. I am so sorry for the loss of your dad. It is hard, and different for everyone. It will get a little easier in time. I do think live talking with people near you is helpful - work, church, friends, neighbors, a stranger in an airport waiting room [could be an unexpected person]. Live conversation is good. Maybe do something different - go to the animal shelter and adopt an animal which needs a home, plant a garden, volunteer. If you are not yet married, perhaps this is the time to think about having a companion. It does take time to adjust, but you do have to keep walking along the road of life.
None of it is fair. But then we don't get to decide. I lost my sister, brother and father all at very young ages. After the 3rd one died, my younger brother, (and losing 2 pets within 6 weeks of each other) I just crashed.
I work with psychiatric patients and one day I was with a older woman who was disoriented. She was rambling on and on and at one point she just stopped and said to me... "we all have an expiration date".
She couldn't have said it any clearer. Nor could she have said anything more true.
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