I wrote this a few months ago because it is an issue every grieving parent faces: Why do friends abandon us?
Truth be told, many of us abandoned others prior to our own bereavement for some of the same reasons.
It is really hard to hang in and hang on when a friend is going through such a hard time. Understanding why my friends might pull away helps me extend grace. ❤
It happens in all kinds of ways. One friend just slowly backs off from liking posts on Facebook, waves at a distance from across the sanctuary, stops texting to check up on me.
Another observes complete radio silence as soon as she walks away from the graveside.
Still another hangs in for a few weeks-calls, texts, even invites me to lunch until I can see in her eyes that my lack of “progress” is making her uneasy. Then she, too, falls off the grid.
Why do people do that?
Read the rest here: Why Friends Abandon Grievers
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I think that people just aren’t very good at dealing with someone else’s grief. After I lost my husband someone I considered to be a very good friend at the time told me, quite bluntly, that they couldn’t cope with my ‘moods’ and that I had become a ‘burden’. That still hurts today but, however much we might like to, we can’t change people so we just have to accept them for who they are.
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Very true. That’s a huge part of it. No one really likes messy or sad or painful. ❤
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