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How Do I Live Without You?

By on Sep 17, 2019 | 3 comments

This is a question bereaved parents ask themselves. Without a doubt, child loss is the most life changing event of my life. There is a hole that cannot be filled with anything else. The longing is palpable dozens of times in a day. The question, “How could this be?”, is one I think about often. There is no answer to this question. The other question I ask myself is, “How do I live despite this loss?” Because there is no clear answer to either of these questions I am left to navigate by myself in uncharted territory. How did I get to this place in my life? This is not the plan I carefully mapped out. There was supposed to be a trajectory to my life, my son’s life and our family’s life, that was logical and planned for everyone’s highest good. But life, fate, or bad luck had another plan. The song sung by LeeAnn Rhimes titled, How Do I Live Without You, runs through my head often. I read...