Learning to walk before I run

savingholmes · 20 January 2024 at 11:05PM

Glad the funeral went as well as it could have done - albeit exhausting for all.

Your kids will miss FIL and be aware of your collective sadness.

Glad you got the right result from TUI in the end even if they handled it badly.

QueenJess · 20 January 2024 at 11:17PM

I hear lots of bad things about TUI generally re: their awful customer service. Lots of people seem to write into the papers about them.

powerspowers · 21 January 2024 at 9:40AM

Sending gentle vibes Edinburgher & family.

Hope you’ve all had a chance to restore and recover this weekend x

Suffolk_lass · 21 January 2024 at 9:55AM

It feels as though the funeral marks the moment after which, the quiet personal grieving can begin. My Mum says that she put on her public smile during the day so the invitations kept coming, and quietly grieved for my Dad in the evenings, on her own. She lost her younger sister, who was ten, and they shared a bed at the time, and her mother allowed her to cry for several weeks before saying to her that life is for living and we will always love and miss little sis, but she would want us to start enjoying things and moving forward with our lives. It's a deeply personal journey. Her grief was much better than mine for my father. Thinking of all of you, and especially your MIL

Watty1 · 21 January 2024 at 11:55AM

thinking of you I always think it is the quiet period after the funeral which is so hard. Grief is so raw still but there is 'nothing to do' and yet the world moves on. Thinking of you all.