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I’m so so sorry you are going through this. Grief is hard enough, but going through it secretly, all the while having to continue showing up for your kids, is just brutal.
Perhaps your friend was careful to hide your conversations behind…"
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- About Me:
- I am 32, and now, a single mum. I have just started studying a Bachelor of Education (Primary School). I grew up in NZ, moved to Australia in 1999, married in 2002, had our daughter 2005, and widowed 2010. I live on the South coast of Victoria, in a small town called Venus Bay.
- About my Loss:
- My husband was upfront about his illness when we met, which is a whole other story, but he had a genetic condition which caused his kidney's to fail and a host of other medical problems. I could cope with having a sick husband, but one day I realised my husband was actually dying, which may sound strange, but it changed my whole thinking. In the end, I left him 6 months before he died, so I could be established somewhere, not in the city we lived, and be ready to deal with loosing him. So I thought. Anyway, I was with him his last days, and he was lying in my arms when he died, which I know was what he wanted. It has been 16 months since his death. I have come to realise in trying to be strong for our daughter and in doing what I thought I had to, to survive and not fall apart, I have infact buried my grief, and I think it needs to come out.
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delayed grief
I lost my husband 16 months ago. I have now come to realise that I never grieved our mourned for him. I knew he was going to die early, from the time we met, as he was chronically ill, and I had convinced myself that I was prepared to deal with the loss. We have a 6 year old daughter, who is the love of my life. In knowing he was going to die, I moved away from him, for the last 6 months. I put this decision down to survival. I thought being settled in a new (tiny) town, and establishing…
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