You will one day find life calling you back and you will move forward... with that said there is no date... no certain amount of time... one day you wake up and realize that it has begun.
My brother has been gone for 13 years... I miss him daily. The pain is not that raw, cut to the core, pull your heart out grief... it is soft, it brings smiles and laughter, so many good memories yet there are times it brings a bucket of tears. Those tears are just much fewer and far between.
You have to learn to embrace the grief, to let it come and to ride the waves of it... its a journey, not a short trip but a marathon. The day will come when it will be easier to walk with.
Hold on tight and remember we are here walking beside you,
Jeanne
Philip's mom forever
Bruce's sister