Ehwmatt wrote:Michigan Girl wrote:StevePerryHair wrote: It's nothing to do with "replacing". It has everything to do with lonliness.
This is exactly what bothers me about rushing into a new marriage~ not giving yourself enough time
to grieve...
Lynn, you make some good points in the several posts above. It's really just looking at the situation from two different life experiences, there is (obviously) no universal right or wrong. MG cuts to the heart of the matter for me right here ^^^, though. Yes, grieving began when she was diagnosed, but the grieving upon death is something totally unique and something you can't steel yourself for, no matter how much advance notice or lack thereof you have (eg cancer vs a tragic car accident). NOTHING can prepare you for the actual loss. I lost one grandmother to breast cancer, a grandfather to lung cancer (fuckin cigs), and my other grandfather to heart disease. They all happened gradually and we were "prepared," but nothing can truly prepare you for the ACTUAL feeling/situation of loss, at least imo.
I'm with MG, you need time to grieve. One of the aforementioned co-workers (actually, my old boss) made a promise to his wife that there'd never be anybody else... she died when he was 50. Well, that was awfully young to make that promise, as he's a VERY healthy 60. He's one of those works out every day, vibrant, doesn't think about retiring, doesn't look a day over 50 type. So, after he had his "time to grieve," several years, turns out he did find someone else and it's pretty serious now. Good for him.
My perspective is you need that time and space. You feel differently. That's fine. I'm also somewhat looking at it through the kids' lens, since I can still imagine what it would feel like if one of my parents passed and the other remarried so soon. I'd 99% be likely to be pissed about that.
Good points. But your parent can't live their life for you. He's the one living in his grief and pain and lonelieness every night and day week after week. His kids are late teens and twenty or something like that.
Like I said, my only problem with it was when Kyle had only died in March, his first letter in July publicly proclaiming his love and happiness for a woman he had obviously been dating for a while seemed unseemly to me and in poor taste regarding Kyle's memory. Now, as his child, that would be hard to stomach and would rather him care about the woman more privately and tread more slowly with the relationship, instead of declarations of love in letter form publicly and so quickly. But that's just how I would react. I just wouldn't want it in my face so soon b/c I would be grieving for my mom and would be hard to take.