Quote: (04-24-2019 10:22 AM)jimukr75 Wrote:
Quote: (04-23-2019 11:49 AM)Soothesayer Wrote:
I know a lot of guys here say things like 'You'll recover from this' or 'You'll get over this'. Personally, in the case of close relatives I don't think we really ever get over it, and doubly so for pets. I know it sounds a little new-agey, but I believe you absorb their Spirit until you meet them again on the other side. My dad died of cancer a few years back and I handled that pretty well, though I hadn't seen him in a couple of years as I live outside the USA now. Compare that to when I had a cat die out of the blue (an orange lion of a cat named Tigger) that damn near killed me. There was nothing in the world that could have prepared me for such a loss.
What kept me strong was remembering that 'not a sparrow falls from the sky without our Heavenly Father's approval.'
Makes sense. A immediate family member we feel the loss , even if we don't see them often because of past memories. A beloved pet is like losing a young child because we see and care for them daily and we really feel the loss of the routine.
I recently heard a saying, I can't quite remember how it went, something like the one that does the most loves the most, or something like that.