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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, this thread is about irrational anger, so:

I get really annoyed with people who want me to express endless empathy towards them when they lose their loving, close parent at an elderly age. Like I have friends who lost a parent 4-5 years ago, at the age of 75+, who still expect me to ask how they are doing with it.

It makes me mad because they don't understand that their grief is a GIFT. I wish my parent's death was a source of loss, grief instead of a relief, but my parents were neglectful, abusive, and unkind my entire life. I had very complex feelings when my dad passed. I had to go to therapy to work through it because I knew my feelings were too much for most people to deal with and that it wasn't as simple as "I'm sad my dad died."

So I do get irrationally angry at the grief of people who are just sad their dad died. I cannot related to them and if I've already expressed empathy and condolences in the year their parent died, I'm all done and need to move on.[/quote]

I am like you except I don’t think it’s a gift. They were probably infantilized and are now trying to emotionally mooch off of you now that their parents are gone. It is absolutely natural to feel very little grief when an old person dies. This is how nature intended it. [/quote]

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