When you lose a child, it changes you. And our friends don’t know how to act or what to do. They don’t know what to do with the new you even though you’re the same person you were in so many ways. So here’s what we want our friends to know.
Period. We want you just the way you are and we crave your company. Being alone all the time can be a recipe for agony.
No one can. No one has the magic wand and no one has the perfect … Read more...
When something awful happens, people are at complete loss for what to do or what to say. It’s like a switch was flipped and the tragedy changed you. There is little training in how to manage a family member or friendship with someone who has met the most devastating loss of their lives.
Friends and family don’t adapt quickly to your new circumstances. Just as I have not adapted quickly to being a mother of a child who killed himself. Why should I expect others to? Why should I expect them to know what to do or what to say? … Read more...