Elizabeth Nolen
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Just Joshin' You 3
You hear people say "it's time to move on" a lot when it comes to "grief victims" as we're called. Like somehow suddenly everyone has a time frame of when they shouldn't be sad anymore. After almost a year of my husband's passing, I heard someone say "You don't move on, you move forward. Your deceased person will never be something you just get over, you'll never be fully healed, but you learn to move forward. They're still, and will always be, a part of your life". And I absolutely love that. There's no straight line with grief. You don't have the starting point then an ending point. You can go days, months, years with feeling "fine" and then have complete break downs. If you haven't been through grief, which I hope you haven't, then you can't understand. And that's fine, I hope you never have to. But please, allow people to grieve their lost loves, any time they want, for the rest of their lives.
By Elizabeth Nolen5 years ago in Families
Just Joshin' You 2
I used to think I had a good sense of character. That when I met someone I could truly tell if they were a good person, I guess most people think they can, but this man showed me how wrong I was. It's still so hard to believe that someone can be so sweet, seem so genuine, actually help out when you need it, and then also be a complete psychopath with tunnel vision and no sense of reality.
By Elizabeth Nolen5 years ago in Humans
Just Joshin' You
My husband passed in March of 2018. As a widow, you go into this state of unknown. You question how you will go on, try to deal with all your emotions and worry how to take care of your kids. You surrounded by people who say things like "I'm sorry for your loss" and "time will heal". At first, all you can do is smile and try to be polite because you know they mean well, but after time each sorry or quote about time makes you angry.
By Elizabeth Nolen5 years ago in Psyche
