I am so sad and devastated and mourning the loss of a boy who would be my family if things were different.
Three years later just means it’s the fourth year in a row that I’ve cried until my heart couldn’t take it anymore.
So selfish to love a boy who never knew I existed.
Love you, Puppy. So much.
There really are no sufficient words of comfort I can offer except that I am terribly sorry…so sorry.
Our thoughts and hearts are with you two today.
I don’t believe anything about this love you have or loss you feel is selfish.
It is not necessary to meet a boy face to face to know how wonderful they would have been in your life.
Danny has been gone for years yet I still wonder what he would have been like as a father to his children.
I don’t think it’s selfish at all. My thoughts are with you both on this day.
It is not selfish to feel sorrow for the loss of what could have been.
We all feel it to some degree if only because Dawg wrote so lovingly of him that we couldn’t help but share in it.
I thought of you and Dawg on Monday and shed a tear or two of my own.
There’s nothing selfish about loving someone, and nothing wrong with wondering “what if” or wondering what could have been. I still think of two little boys that I love and miss to this day and wonder how it would have gone if things had been different. If anything, it shows you have a wonderful capacity for love and compassion.
Grieving is for the griever. You feel what you feel and that is OK.
You may not have known the Puppy Monster, but he is a part of the man you love and Dawg is a part of him. How could you not love him? And how could you not mourn what might have been?
Love you.