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sometimes the rest of your life. sometimes till you find someone to take your mind off of them.
i dont think the feeling of missing them ever leaves. is that "mourning", im not sure. but the feelings stay.
the lessen with time. but it still has a big impact on your life.
I disagree. It takes time to mourn and when we lose someone, we need to mourn. There's a reason the mourning period is one year or more. Part of the mourning process is going through the year of events. Living each day of one year as the first without the person who died. Going through the first Christmas, Easter, Anniversary, Birthday, etc,etc, etc... without them. Bringing a replacement into the picture too soon cuts off the mourning process abruptly. You need to mourn before you can heal and you need to heal to go on to a healthy relationship.
I agreed with you. Re-read my post. If you didn't understand, I said there is no "acceptable" time. You mourn as long as you need.
A week, a month, a year, a decade? How long is it acceptable?
So this is a trick question right?
I mean, I would need to keep putting visine in my eyes at the funeral to give the idea I am sad.
I would say...without jumping up and down in a joyful outburst maybe questioning the fact that this is really true...I probably wouldn't mourn...at all.
Actually, I wouldn't believe it. I would have to see the body. Poke it a few times and make sure it is true.
I wouldn't except a boating accident where there was no body recovered. There is just no way. I would be in fear she would show up sometime down the road.
Actually, I think she would be like a vampire who doesn't die. If she was in a car accident she would just pull the smashed car door off of her like the terminator and wait for medical teams to arrive. She's scary.
It varies. And not only does the length of time vary, so does the way people handle it.
I lost my 18-year-old daughter 12 years ago. If my husband died while we were still living in this house, I know that I would have to move out of it right away. I have no idea how long the mourning process would last, but my life would change in a lot of ways. I'd move, probably back to my roots, and I would try to pick up the pieces to enjoying life, but I would never get married again. I'm quite certain of it.
The grieving period CAN take hold of some people to where they barely function, and THAT is not good! I had a helluva time for the first 1-1/2 years after my daughter passed, but I also had no desire to stop living.
How can anyone measure grief after loosing a loved one? This whole question is ridiculous.
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