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PostPosted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 9:41 am 
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- Sharing Your Grief

Which of these sentences best describes you? Your spouse? Siblings? Children?
A. I like to open up and share deep-felt emotions as often as possible.
B. I can think of a million things I'd rather do than bring up the pain again by talking about it.

Every person has his or her own way of reacting to grief, and men and women often respond differently.

"My husband still has a hard time just talking about it," says Dora, who lost her daughter. "I think his way of dealing with it is to dive into work, to avoid it, to not talk about it. Many times it causes problems between us because I want to talk about it. For me, it's like he's not validating my suffering by allowing me to share it with him. For him, it's as if I'm opening up his wounds by wanting him to share it with me."

You cannot change another person to grieve in a way that pleases you, but you can give your concerns about that person to God and pray that he or she will someday open up and release those crippling emotions.

"Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective" (James 5:16).

Lord God, it's so important that I share my emotions with others. Only You can soften a heart that is hardened. Once again, I give it to You. Amen.



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Hi Barbara, thank you for sharing this. For the most part my family has shared the deep felt emotions pretty regular. But over the past year me and my middle daughter are the only ones that still feel the need to do this well... little Johnathan does too. It's took some adjusting to the fact that Bobby seems to be doing better than me most of the time but then I know that's ok. I know we all go at our own pace and there is no changing that. I've learned in grief you really do have to let each other move at their own pace but I've also learned that open communication with each other helps bring the understanding that is needed. It's when communication stops that the walls come up and resentment has a chance to come in. We really have to watch out for that.
Love ya, Cindy

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