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Time To Let Go Of The Hurt Caused By The Suicide Of A Parent.
After many years of confusion, lack of understanding, and emotional pain, now I feel free to move forward…
‘You will lose someone you can’t live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly, that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.’
I can comfortably write about this topic now after so many years have passed me by. It was during the early part of the summer of 1980 when this happened and it is now 2021 (41 years have now gone by) I really did not believe that I have not been able to open up earlier than this, or maybe it was that I have just not been mentally equipped until this moment in time actually arrived to deeply think about.
It was so very long ago. I am 51 now, and after working within the field of mental health nursing and having to leave this career after 30+ years after contracting Covid-19 in 2020, and recognizing how lucky I had been to recover after requiring hospital…
