I have never completely gotten over it. The affect of her death on my father and sister has probably been the reason I have never completely moved on. I still am sorrowfully amazed how her death was able to completely unravel my father. And what my father emotionally did to my sister.
Before her death I had thought my father was emotionally stronger than my mother.... looks can be deceiving.
I think about parents who loose young one's. I think how much more terrible the pain must be for them. I now grieve for any parent who looses a child.
Life does have a way of renewing itself though. My stepson, whom I didn't know for many years after my mother's death, was born four days after her death.
