Shortly after my sister-in-law died three years ago, my father-in-law told me that he was talking with a friend of his who said to him, “You’re now a member of a club. A club you don’t want to be in, but a club all the same because no one can understand the loss of a child unless they’ve been through it.”

I understood it to a certain level, but not at the full level of having experienced the loss myself. I am glad that he had a friend, a male friend, who could understand his loss.

Thanks for sharing this wonderful story.