Lost my MIL recently. DH and I were very close to her and she was very cherished. It's the first significant bereavement I've been through and I'm surprised by my feelings.
Some days they are so intense. I cry, I get angry etc. Some days feel surreal and heightened. Some days have been sheer hell.
Then today I feel nothing, like it didn't happen. I'm sitting here sipping a beer as I always do on a Friday and the kids are watching a movie. It feels like any other day.
DH and I range between being strong for each other to being upset with each other to wanting to make mad passionate love.
It's all totally weird and messed up. I can't envisage just a normal day with normal feelings again.