I was on Facebook a few weeks ago, as that is my entire social life these days, when I read comments under a post featuring a picture of a friend and her late husband. Some of these posts were quite odd I thought:
“Lovely Picture!” Ok, that’s nice.
“I remember this day! We had such fun!” Also nice.
“You guys looked great in this picture.” Somewhat questionable but still reasonable.
“Such a happy picture!!” Okaaaaaayyy.
Then, there was:
“It’s so painful looking at this picture, knowing that he’s gone!” WHUT?
“Looking at this hurts my heart!” For REAL?
My personal favorite:
“How are you still able to post these things? It can’t be helping you heal.”
Really? Please tell me you are kidding, I thought.
Here are more things I’ve heard people say, along with my responses. Now, when it was early times for me, I thought my responses in…
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