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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm missing my parents so much today! They've been gone 3 and 9 years respectively. I spent the weekend at a family reunion and it was wonderful.to be amongst those who loved and cherished my parents. Today I'm back to life as usual but feeling so empty!  It's almost like I'm reliving the grief process.  Has anyone else been through this? What helped you?[/quote]

OP, grief is a very individual thing and there is really no way to gauge what is "normal".  I've relived the grief over my mother many times, in many ways, for many reasons. It has been 21 years since she died in front of me.  I try to be guided by the fact that, for whatever reason, when I am at my most sad, I sense that I don't need to. In other words, something always comes into my heart and head that tells me its ok to be sad, but I don't need to be sad.  I don't have a strong history of readily available faith to support this. It's just a feeling.

What this means is that you ultimately only you can decide how to handle your grief. As others have mentioned, talking to other people who have gone through it helps so much, and helps with the alone part of things. You are far from alone in any of your feelings of grief. But you experience them on your own...

Most important" remember that nothing you feel is wrong. There is no guide book for this stuff. Its painful and hard. But its nice to be able to miss someone because it means they were wonderful.[/quote]

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