Coping with being out of contact with a cult-involved child
When we speak of loss it is not necessarily about death. It may be complete loss of contact, or it may be the loss of the quality and/or frequency of the relationship you had with your child before the cult involvement. This often involves the loss of dreams and expectations.
An added difficulty in coping with the loss of a living child compared to the actual death of a child is that it may be harder to find closure. The challenge of coping with a loss continues throughout the life-span. It changes meaning at different stages of your child's life and stages of your own life. This is actually true for any loss. What is different for parents of cult-involved children is the possibility and therefore the hope that the situation could change.
Parents need to both mourn and stay open, and even be active.
Friday, February 29, 2008
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Yes, it is harder to find closure,but do parents want this when their children are still alive?
HOPE is always in the hearts of a mother and father together with LOVE for their lost child. This energy is active, and hopefully somewhere in the souls of the lost children the love is felt.
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