Grief from losing a child
- Terry Evans
- 3 hours ago
- 1 min read
I wish more people understood that child loss isn’t just being sad and crying.
It’s anger.
It’s numbness.
It’s being shattered into pieces and still having to function.
It’s every emotion all at once… and sometimes, none at all.
When you lose a child, you don’t just grieve their absence.
You grieve the life they should have lived.
The milestones they’ll never reach.
The moments you’ll never get back.
It changes you mentally, physically, spiritually. It drains your energy, your hope, and sometimes your will to keep going.
Grief is love with nowhere to go.
It’s whispering “this too shall pass” while your heart screams that it never will.
It’s forcing yourself to eat when food has no taste.
It’s showering just to cry under the water where no one can hear you.
It’s isolating because being around people feels exhausting…
and surrounding yourself with noise just so you don’t have to think.
Grief is messy. It’s heavy. It’s lifelong.
So if you can’t understand why a parent grieves so deeply, for so long…
consider yourself lucky not to understand. 💔
Comments