How did your parents' dying change your life in the short and long term?

Question

How did your parents' dying change your life in the short and long term?

Answer 1

I am glad you asked this question even though it is painful for me to respond. I do believe that in my response, it will help me to deal with their deaths.  My father passed in 2000 and my mother in 2001.  I was very sad at both, but more saddened by my mother's death.  Their deaths brought a void in my life that I don't' think will ever be filled. It's a part of me that is missing.  The people who made me are gone. I have no mother or father to talk to. Even though I am 55, I still often, feel like a small child in need of parents to provide strength and wisdom and humor in my life.  In the short term, their absence is continuous and painful.  In the long term, it makes me realize even more that none of us are here to stay and it makes me cherish the relationship I have with my daughter even more.  I am closer to her than my parents were to me.  I pray that when it's my time, I will have given my daughter so much in the way of love and wisdom that she will know how to live her life and live it through Jesus Christ who has been the comforter through it all.  

Answer 2

That is kind of hard to say right now. My mom just passed 3 years ago and I do miss her a lot. I wish I could have talked to her more than I did. It has made me really emotional in the last year....