How do you ever get over this?

[Bluemat]

My absolutely amazing Father passed away 3 days ago. I thought I was coping ok until today.

I can't stop crying and I just want to see him so much. The pain feels physical - I can't believe that's it he's gone.

Sending you love and strength. It’s a cold rainy day today and somehow that makes it worse. Hoping for some brighter days soon. Do you want to tell us about your dad?

That's so nice Thankyou.

My dad was just an amazing man, he was one of the few good people that you find in life.

I've had a cry this morning because it's two weeks today since he passed. It was a beautiful, sunny day that day. A proper spring day where you feel like winter has gone.

Grief is the price we pay for love. When a person is loved as much as your father they are blessed beyond measure. All our parents lost their parents too. It's the way things are. Your love clearly filled his life with joy and happiness and gratitude. That's a wonderful gift that is eternal. Make him proud by those daily strong little steps forward until you can run again, and really enjoy life once more, as he would dearly want you to.

This is so sad. I cried every day for a year after my mum died almost 22 years ago. Now I can talk about her to my sons and laugh at the fun things we did but id love her back. Got so much to tell her x

That made me cry, but it is so true.

@Muddays that's beautiful 🥰

I'm so so sorry for your loss. It will get easier. I lost my dad when I was a teenager , was around 17 years ago. It does get easier. I still miss him terribly though and occasionally a song he used to love will come on the radio or I'll come across a picture and it will be like a stab in the heart and I'll break down in tears immediately. Just grieve how you need to and don't worry about how you 'should' be feeling.

How are you doing this morning @Bluemat ? We are trying to plan the funeral and I’m worried about my mum. It’s all so shit and I don’t feel like doing any of it. We were told by funeral directors that we are looking at the first week of April! Seems so far away.

I'm ok I guess - I don't know what to say when people ask me how I am. At the moment I'm just trying to put one foot in front of the other.

That seems an awfully long way away for the funeral, I'm struggling with my Dad being gone but he hasn't yet, he's laid somewhere- then next week he really will be gone.