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Old Jun 20, 2015, 01:46 AM
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Originally Posted by hankster View Post
It was never a question of "pre-grieving". That sounds heartless. Its just that, as a part of psychotherapy as many people do it, one might grieve not having the parent one wished, as part of the process of coming to terms with one's past. I believe this is a common psychodynamic concept.
Yes. Some of us "lost" our parents decades before they died. To "lose" a parent is a bigger pain than to bury them, I find.

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