When Kye died, it hit us really hard. Ever since then, I have found that for Paula and I, we have a lot more trouble handling things and other people’s grief.
A little while ago, my wife’s cousin Jen went to hospital and within a couple of weeks, she died. Her family came to visit her and stayed until she died. I never met Jen, and to be honest, I have only met her family once or twice. So, you would think that I would have felt pretty distant from all of this happening, yet we ended up helping the family as much as we could and I found that I was really emotional and it really affected me. Before Kye died, I would have felt bad for them, but it wouldn’t have hit me as hard.
So, even a year and half later, I am still emotionally off-balance. Slowly, I am getting my balance back, but it is definitely slow…