I can not express how much your kinds words about Junior's dad's passing mean to us. It's been a rough week, but I think it's getting easier for him every day. We are going to go to therapy every week (instead of every other week) for a little while, and hopefully that will help Junior work through some of his anger and pain. Thankfully, his work has been extremely supportive, allowing him to take this entire week off. He'll go back to work on Monday.
I think one of he hardest things for him was that there was no funeral or memorial of any kind. His brother and sister arranged for him to be cremated, and they are going to scatter his ashes at his favorite fishing hole. We didn't even expect there to be an obituary in the paper, but yesterday there was a very small one. I have been trying to keep Junior busy, so we went out to lunch, and I bought a newspaper, not expecting to find anything. Of course, seeing it in black and white was hard for him, but it also confirmed it for him. He was just saying yesterday morning how he didn't feel like it was real because he didn't see anything for himself. Now that he has, I think it will be easier for him to move on. Make sense?
Please continue to keep him in your prayers. I know he will be just fine, in time. He doesn't want to grieve for a man who was nothing but mean to him, but it's human nature. He was still his dad.
