Poll: Grieving / Partings - People and Places

[Ernie]

Our family has been interacting with a fine, young lady who has been doing an internship with us.

She says that for the first month when she is at a new place (a new school, a new job, a new place to teach) she grieves the thought of parting with the people she is interacting with. She begins talking with those around her about the grief she is feeling. Then when the parting comes two years later or three years later or five weeks later, the parting is not as emotionally difficult as it would be if she waited to grieve until the last months of her stay. She insists that she does real grieving and that this does not somehow skirt the grieving process. Can anybody else relate to this?

[Verity]

Ummm, is that because she is a lay?

Guess this was intentionally placed in Mennolight... when I saw the subject my first thought was what????

[Josh]

Perhaps it is a mother hen who is thinking about eventually losing her chicks or saying goodbye to her flock when she gets "relocated" to... err... a new farm.

[Soloist]

Wife: I have no idea where I fall on the voting spectrum because it depends on the situation. All I can think of though with her method is how Ann in Ann of Green Gables started sobbing horribly because she was thinking about how her and her best friend would someday be parted when the other girl eventually got married, and they were both like 11 or 12. Whatever works for her I guess.