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There’s a never-ending stream of “secondary losses” following the loss of a child. This kind of grief feels like you’re forever incomplete and missing something. You’re longing for a sense of home that is always just out of reach…
Apparently there is actually a word to summarize this specific brand of “homesickness”… this yearning for something that will never be complete in this life…
©Lauren Koch | My Slice of Joy
Morgan would’ve been 9 months today. I’ve officially spent as many weeks without him as the weeks I had with him.
There’s something incredibly suffocating about moving further and further away from the last time I held him. Like a piece of me is forever anchored in that hospital room with his little hand holding onto my finger.
But it’s nice to have a word. Sometimes even just a word can make the intolerable more tolerable…give an indescribable feeling just a little bit of clarity.
