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[quote=Anonymous]It's been over two years and I am still grieving but the grief has changed a lot in that time. 
The first 3-4 months I was beside myself, had ongoing sleep disturbance, could be set off crying by the smallest thing, thought all the time of various aspects of death: the circumstances surrounding the actual death, what I miss most, what I had hoped for that will not be, who my parent was, how I remember them and how this impacts my identity, how the death and loss of relationship impacts my children, how it's different for my siblings, how to help my surviving parent who is deep in grief, and on and on. There was so much to process.
I will never stop missing my parent but the grief is just a companion I've learned to live with and it doesn't feel all-consuming or disrespectful to not pay attention to it if my current life needs my attention. I can reminisce without being overcome.e with emotion. I still have the briefest thougts of "I need to tell my parent xyz" or "the next time I see them". It's like a millisecond of forgetting they are permanently gone. It still seems like there must be some possibility...
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