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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I think it's also worth realizing that people who haven't been through the death of a parent or sibling yet often just don't understand.

I became a widow at 50, with no friends who had been through anything remotely like it. There's no grasping it until you've experienced it. I lost my mother three years before that, the first of my friends to lose a parent. My friends were all wonderful and supportive, but without their own experience, they didn't always get where I was coming from.

That said, the world does not revolve around my pain. I avoid FB on Mother's Day, and try to be happy for people celebrating wedding anniversaries and their spouse's birthdays. And hope that they don't have to go through what I've been through anytime soon.

I have bad days when I am angry at the world, but that's my own issue. If you continue to be stuck on this, you are going to expend so much psychological energy unnecessarily. It's not going to change--you have to change your thought process.[/quote]

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