I cry over every kitty/doggy that I read about in Crossing The Bridge.
It breaks my heart! I want to go hug the meowmy's and daddy's that lost an angel!
It breaks my heart! I want to go hug the meowmy's and daddy's that lost an angel!
Fran just kinda nailed it for me there, Bobbie. I'm glad you posted this as it gives me a chance to explain...but we all know there's no real explanation needed. Everyone knows what it does to our hearts and heads. It took me a year. An entire year after beloved FreddieOriginally Posted by rapunzel47
The Bridge is a hard place to go. I suspect there aren't many people on this board who don't have a hard time there -- heck, we wouldn't be here if we weren't totally besotted with our kitties, and we know all too well, even those who have yet to experience this loss, how devastated we have felt/would feel.
I don't get in there as often as I should, but I try to go in every couple of days, and I try to respond to at least some of the threads, though some nights I find I just can't put the words together.
Originally Posted by KittenKrazy
Yip, I know just how you feel! That's why some days I don't go there, I'm not in a position to be seen bawling my eyes out, but I do try to go everyday, and try to reply everytime that I can.....especially when its someone who just joined because they just lost their wee one, I kinda feel that they don't know the support group that we offer to each other, and need as much help as they can get, ASAP.
Originally Posted by hissy
Gaye and I share mod duties there and we were discussing this the other day, how both of us need to take breaks from time to time to responding to the intense pain we see there daily. It's hard to keep getting barraged over and over again with sadness and struggling within yourself to offer up words of hope, courage or inspiration. It is quite draining, and last year after Blink passed on, I found I could not go there for quite sometime. The same when we lost Kahuna- the losses were shattering and I had no words of hope for those hurting because I had lost hope within myself-
Originally Posted by jcat
That's one forum I generally avoid. I really have to force myself to read the threads there, and can never come up with the "right" response.