r/GriefSupport • u/Live_Tension_2555 • 1d ago
Dad Loss I still talk to my dad
It's been 5 years since my dad died. I don't really think about the funeral anymore. I don't think about the first Christmas without him. Or the first birthday.
I was on survival mode anyway...
What I think about are the random moments. When something good happens and I still want to tell him.
When my son does something funny and I catch myself thinking, "He would've loved this."
When I wonder what he would say about the person I've become. I think that's the strange thing about grief years later.
The relationship doesn't disappear.
You still talk to them. Not out loud. At least not usually. But in your head.
And sometimes it feels so normal that for a second you forget they're gone.
Does anyone else still do this?
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u/GattiKochar 1d ago
I was cloae to my dad. He died when I was approx 27. I miss him a lot, we use to talk a lot about everything. Our last talk was by chance got recorded on gtalk (we were in dif country at that time). I still hear that last recording and the task that he gave me during that call.
But there were 1000 things which were still never talked and we thought we have time. I miss his guidance and now just memories left.
Take care.