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Bereavement

CaliforniaPeggy

(152,843 posts) Thu Oct 8, 2015, 10:43 PM Oct 2015

Tonight I got some very good news.......and now I'm sad. [View all]

How can it be that something good can make me smile and hurt deeply all at the same time?

Normally I would be sharing my good news with my dear newly passed friend......but of course, I cannot. Oh boy and it hurts.

This is the first big piece of good news since he died, and I know there will be more times that this will happen. I only hope the pain that comes with it will ease.

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Tonight I got some very good news.......and now I'm sad. [View all] CaliforniaPeggy Oct 2015 OP

My dear, Peggy. It will ease. Wilms Oct 2015 #1

I sure am. CaliforniaPeggy Oct 2015 #2

It is tough, Peggy, when we murielm99 Oct 2015 #3

Thank you. I expect it will... CaliforniaPeggy Oct 2015 #4

I wish I had ohheckyeah Oct 2015 #5

Just having you talk to me helps so much, my dear ohheckyeah... CaliforniaPeggy Oct 2015 #6

I think losing joy ohheckyeah Oct 2015 #7

It does suck. CaliforniaPeggy Oct 2015 #8

Good point. ohheckyeah Oct 2015 #9

The pain will ease. Paka Oct 2015 #10

Still to this very day when I receive news of any kind one of my first thoughts auntAgonist Oct 2015 #11

Thank you...the good memories do help. CaliforniaPeggy Oct 2015 #12

how long has it been since your mom passed? orleans Oct 2015 #13

It seems like yesterday some days but in reality it's been a lifetime ago. 1997 August 23rd. auntAgonist Oct 2015 #16

tell him, peggy--say it out loud & talk about it orleans Oct 2015 #14

Sometimes I do talk to him, as though he were here...but I sure feel silly! CaliforniaPeggy Oct 2015 #15

"Beauty without the beloved is like a sword through the heart" NCarolinawoman Oct 2015 #17

That is a beautiful saying, and thank you for showing it to me. CaliforniaPeggy Oct 2015 #18

I talk to my Dad. ohheckyeah Oct 2015 #19