Barbara
I go thru the same thing during holidays and birthdays over stepgfg..... I tell myself each time I'm not going to let it happen. But it's there, and I think to deny it would be wrong.
I did it again this Easter. I let myself ache for all of the family love stepgfg has decided to deny herself and her kids. I can't do anything to change it. But that doesn't mean I don't still feel the hurt. Doesn't mean I don't still worry.
It's a form of grief, pure and simple. And I can get thru it when it hits much better if I don't try to deny what I'm feeling. I just wish I didn't have to feel it at all.
((((hugs))))
