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the point of this very odd question is what?????????????????????????????? i think this is one instance i do not feel like baring my soul..... or my losses. it just seems rather invasive and a tad bit peeping-tommish. I can't imagine why you would ask this.
the point of this very odd question is what?????????????????????????????? i think this is one instance i do not feel like baring my soul..... or my losses. it just seems rather invasive and a tad bit peeping-tommish. I can't imagine why you would ask this.
Although I at first was taken aback by the question and thought it might be a troll post, I see many people who are not dealing with grief have responded. I had no idea people who were not dealing with grief, meaning not having recently lost a loved one, are reading this forum! THAT I find peeping-tommish! I actually feel violated! Silly but that's how I feel. Good thing I didn't realize this when I WAS going through my grief. That's silly because this is a public forum but I would NEVER think to come in and read about people's tragedy.
Although I at first was taken aback by the question and thought it might be a troll post, I see many people who are not dealing with grief have responded. I had no idea people who were not dealing with grief, meaning not having recently lost a loved one, are reading this forum! THAT I find peeping-tommish! I actually feel violated! Silly but that's how I feel. Good thing I didn't realize this when I WAS going through my grief. That's silly because this is a public forum but I would NEVER think to come in and read about people's tragedy.
Just because you have not had a recent loss does not mean that you are not suffering grief. Everyone's grief and it's timetable is different. Even before my husband's recent death, I occasionally visited this forum because of the difficulty I had accepting my mother's death many years ago. I did not come as a voyeur but to get comfort from what other people had written, and to share words of comfort to others.
Just because you have not had a recent loss does not mean that you are not suffering grief. Everyone's grief and it's timetable is different. Even before my husband's recent death, I occasionally visited this forum because of the difficulty I had accepting my mother's death many years ago. I did not come as a voyeur but to get comfort from what other people had written, and to share words of comfort to others.
Just because you have not had a recent loss does not mean that you are not suffering grief. Everyone's grief and it's timetable is different. Even before my husband's recent death, I occasionally visited this forum because of the difficulty I had accepting my mother's death many years ago. I did not come as a voyeur but to get comfort from what other people had written, and to share words of comfort to others.
I accept your explanation for that, germaine. That person I was responding to just set me off. Of course this forum was brandy new when I stumbled upon it.
Eight that I can identify and probably one more I am forgetting. (Both grandmas and grandpas, Mom, close friend from high-school, a friend from Kiwanis, and a co-worker's mother.) I hate them and have no intention of ever attending another. I will even skip my own. The practice of going to funerals of people you do not know at all just because they are related to someone you do know, makes no sense to me. All kinds of people came to my Mom's funeral and I was thinking "what are you doing here? You never even met Mom." Some of them probably were not even aware I had a mother.
Of course the reality is I will likely have to attend several more.
I've only been to two real funerals. The first was when I watched my grandmother being lowered into the ground in a steady February freezing rain. I was eight years old.
I've only been to two real funerals. The first was when I watched my grandmother being lowered into the ground in a steady February freezing rain. I was eight years old.
Grandma's funeral must have been in the South, huhn, Gerania?
Grandma's funeral must have been in the South, huhn, Gerania?
Dallas, PA. We, she, lived in Wilkes-Barre. When I moved South, I realized that it was pretty much like the North. Everyone likes their mom's or grandmother's cooking and family tradition. They had BBQ, though. I'd grown up without Q? Sad but true.
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