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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Curious to know if anyone posting on this thread has experienced life altering tragedy and the gut-wrenching grief that comes with it.  It is a horrible, horrible thing.  Too awful to really even describe in words, especially when you're only 30 days out like Sheryl.  It is probably all she can do to breathe in and out each day.  She has to, because she has two kids and a huge career.

I believe she wrote the post because it was cathartic, because she is trying to find some meaning in this tragedy by hoping her words will touch someone else, and as a love letter to her husband.  When she described the deep void that you fall into in grief--- you have no idea how deep and how vast and how paralyzing and crushing that void is unless you've experienced it.

So, while I hope no one on this thread has been so unlucky, and while I hope those posting are spared tragedy in their lives, I think everyone disparaging this woman at this darkest period of her life should try to have some compassion.  
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Yup.  Painful, incredible, searing loss - just like you OP.  I can still come to the conclusion that Sheryl's post was strategic in its own way. I'm not saying she doesn't deserve the catharsis or shouldn't share her experience, but a dozen of my friends who haven't lost like we have shared this post to their threads and I'm only lamenting that she doesn't speak of her regrets at any point.  But then she's only 30 days out right?  You know they're there as well as I.  I own my regrets. I wear them like a coat, in an effort not to produce any more, so that I can hopefully spare others the same types of regrets. Sheryl apparently doesn't care to share her regrets, and that's fine - again, HER choice. But for me, honesty is always a double sided coin and I've never seen her flip side.[/quote]

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