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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not to be morbid, but to echo the immediate PP, sometimes (many times??) the person's death is not going to resolve the feelings. My mother, who was essentially abandoned by her father after my grandmother died when my mother was 9 (and my grandfather knocked someone up who became the evil stepmom, etc.) was in her 50s and did a lot of therapy to try to come to terms with her long-dead dad. Her therapist had her bring in a picture of my grandfather. My mom was never going to get the kind of resolution and peace she wanted from my grandfather while he was alive, but the therapy really helped her come to terms with him after he was dead. Her therapist was of the view that relationships continue even after one person dies -- not in a communicate with the dead through a seance way, but in the feelings and emotions of the person who lives on.[/quote]

I did want to present another side to this with a different story. My grandmothers were VERY difficult and could be quite mean and both parents got more difficult with age, one has passed. (Much different from above story-no abandonment) I did what i could with visiting. With parents, did way more because had to deal with emergencies, much worse behavior, and a lots of misery, while setting limits because I am no saint. I will say with each death I felt relief and peace. I am not supposed to say that out loud. I am the person who sobs uncontrollably at the funeral of a friend or even just someone who was kind to my family and I mourn the person and honor them. With each of these cases I had done what I could, endured a lot of heartache and so much physical pain from the emotional stress. If anything I worried something was wrong with me that I didn't deal with intense grief. I think part of that is each case was a long (think 8 years) decline, with worsening behavior, more illness and more and more issues. [/quote]

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