Grieving for a Parent You No Longer Know

Kristina H
6 min readJul 3, 2018
Photo by Hannah Busing on Unsplash

During the night of July 1st, my partner’s father passed away in his sleep. It’s been a sad 24 hours around our house but not for the “typical” reasons of tragedy, loss and mourning.

The last time that my guy had anything to say or do with his father was in the early 1990’s.

His father passed away after a lengthy term of Dementia and Alzheimer’s. These are two mind…

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Kristina H

Writer of relationships / early childhood and mental health . Poetry and fiction dabbler