"If Only"
By Jody NolandNever do those feelings torment a person more than when a loved one has died. Words left unspoken. Gratitude unexpressed. Forgiveness withheld. Hurt that festers. The pile of regrets often growing deeper and more painful with each passing year.
What do you do with all of those emotions when a loved one is gone? Many of us try stuffing them away, but the emotions eventually erupt. Sometimes our pain spews onto someone else in the form of anger. Or we might inflate like a life raft as a result of using food for comfort or slowly disintegrate from a bottomless glass of wine.