Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
What you in your youth don't understand is what the lives of the children mean to parents. Once they're grown life isn't as dear as it used to be. Heck, my kids aren't completely grown and I'm already feeling like the major chapters in my life are coming to a close. Don't feel guilty about the end of your Dad's life. You (along with any brothers or sisters) were and are his life's work. He got the job done. You're going to have to let him go eventually.
What you in your youth don't understand is what the lives of the children mean to parents. Once they're grown life isn't as dear as it used to be. Heck, my kids aren't completely grown and I'm already feeling like the major chapters in my life are coming to a close. Don't feel guilty about the end of your Dad's life. You (along with any brothers or sisters) were and are his life's work. He got the job done. You're going to have to let him go eventually.
Well, my father was actually quite concerned about his children and I think it was a great relief to him that he this summer got contact with a daughter he knew he had in sweden but never had been able to find. I think that that meeting closed an important thing for him an gave him peace. My father was a bit of a curiosity - in 74 he divorced and got the parenthood of me and my sister wich wasn't common.
As said earlier, I may have made a mistake in reviving the thread - I am comfortable with my father dead - it was inevitable and was expected.
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