Poll: Grieving / Partings - People and Places
Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2024 1:21 pm
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?
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?