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[quote=Anonymous]I think that you have to recognize that grieving a dead spouse does not end, OP. You are going to have moments in life where the loss becomes very immediate for you again, and this is definitely one of them. Expect to have similar feelings when your child graduates from high school, when she marries if she marries, when she has children if she has children. Those are things that you thought you would experience with him and he died and that's awful.

The good news is that you have remarried someone who has been a great father to your child. She wants to honor that relationship, which is the only relationship she knows. A good friend of mine's father died when she was 2. Her relationship with her stepfather is vastly more important to her than her biological father, who she does not remember at all. It is really sad for you and your late husband's family, but for your daughter, it's probably not sad that way.

Allow yourself to have these feelings and then allow yourself to celebrate your daughter's choice.[/quote]

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