Bereavement Support Group
Are you grieving the loss of a loved one? Whether you lost someone recently or it's been years, grief and its accompanying emotions can be complicated to cope with. Join our online support group to connect with a supportive group of people who really know how you feel. Help is right here.
I'm new here so I'll explain my situation as briefly as I can. My Mother died Feb/16 two months prior to my husband finding out he had brain cancer. He died a week before Christmas the same year. We had a business which I sold then the buyers backed out last minute. I lost everything...my Mom, my husband, my job then I had to sell the family cottage (had been going there my whole life). It has been 3 years and I have been dealing with both estates and trying to close the business. We had it for 33 years and it was important to me to pay everyone off because my husband was a man of integrity. I am now just starting to truly grieve. I thought I already had; everyone kept telling me how well I was handling things and how life goes on...how I will find happiness again...blah, blah, blah. I'm mentally exhausted and because it's been 3 years, no one "gets" it. Perhaps I'm leaning on friends too much because they aren't calling as often. Has anyone here had a delayed grieving period? I don't know how to get out of this blue funk I'm in...I'm deperately trying to figure things out but have decided I should join a support group so I don't have to do it alone....thanks for any suggestions....
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Life has been really hard this past year. I'm really feeling down and alone. I can't talk to my family about my depression and anxiety their not very understanding about it. It's really hitting me since my mother passed a few months ago, plus stress from having to eventually move. Also having my niece coming around who suffers bipolar and refuses to take medication for it. Its been...
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When i was in the ER February 16th 2025, i was being admitted to ICU where i was for 3 weeks, then had to relearn to walk for 3 weeks in another hospital rehab floor, the nurse told me something that made me feel for over 18 months now that i was finally *safe*. She told me that the guy who raped and beat me 21 years ago now almost 20 years at that time, was in prison as of a month before that...
I would join a RL group for people who have lost their life partners.... You could google this in your area
We have a good Widows and Widowers group on here.... People on it are in different stages of grieving... I will put up a link for you..... Another hug and a blessing....xo
https://www.dailystrength.org/group/bereavement/discussion/widows-widowers-partners-group
Inside my strictly personals, estate closings and grieving remain two separate kettles of fish. My FIL died in Oct 2016 and we are still dealing with the gory details of his complicated estate. I had a healthy respect for the man, but we our emotional bonds were negligible. I was calling him by his surname when he passed. The harder he pushed for me to call him, "Dad," the further I nudged away. He died without a clue of what "Dad" meant to this incest survivor.
My son and his wife died September 21, 2019, leaving my husband and I with their 3 children (6, 3 and 9 months at the time of death). Those children were all there was to his estate, but I believe it just may be the far, far more complex estate. Money is just dirty paper. With the distraction of launching my second parenting career, I am more than a bit worried that Hubs and I are going to find ourselves falling into that delayed grieving pit. We've been trying to stay mindful of our need to grieve, but 3 kids are ALLOT of distraction.
Hope I'm not co-opting your thread with my own troubles. I mostly wanted to welcome you to DS and ? ? ? empathize as best I can? ? ? Rock you gently and cry with you.
Welcome aboard.