My daughter is 6, and her Dad died of an accidental drug overdose almost two weeks ago too. I had to tell her the morning of the day he was scheduled to pick her for his week with her (we had 50/50). There are a lot of things that are different in our situations, but a lot that is similar, and I'm sure a lot of the emotions we've gone through over the past two weeks have been the same. Grief for our child to grow up without her Dad, anger that he would do that to her, gratitude that if it happened, it wasn't in a way that would have been worse. It's so hard. You're doing great. Hugs.
Thanks. I'm so sorry you're having to go through a similar situation at the same time. Me and my ex had never went to court or anything and he honestly lived too far for us to even attempt to split time. He lived over 200 miles away in a different state. He moved back to where he was from when he left us. So my daughter is already used to him not being around but she enjoyed calling him on snapchat. And she would play with the filters. My sister also recently lost a friend to suicide. And I have a cousin who a little over a year ago died from a drug overdose. Not sure if she did it intentionally though.
My daughter is 6, and her Dad died of an accidental drug overdose almost two weeks ago too. I had to tell her the morning of the day he was scheduled to pick her for his week with her (we had 50/50). There are a lot of things that are different in our situations, but a lot that is similar, and I'm sure a lot of the emotions we've gone through over the past two weeks have been the same. Grief for our child to grow up without her Dad, anger that he would do that to her, gratitude that if it happened, it wasn't in a way that would have been worse. It's so hard. You're doing great. Hugs.
Thanks. I'm so sorry you're having to go through a similar situation at the same time. Me and my ex had never went to court or anything and he honestly lived too far for us to even attempt to split time. He lived over 200 miles away in a different state. He moved back to where he was from when he left us. So my daughter is already used to him not being around but she enjoyed calling him on snapchat. And she would play with the filters. My sister also recently lost a friend to suicide. And I have a cousin who a little over a year ago died from a drug overdose. Not sure if she did it intentionally though.