luke22

I also lost my grandfather it was 6 years ago next month, and like you I spent everyday with him. He was more like a father to me. It seems to never get any better, I miss him more everyday. I can understand how you feel.

Thank you for you reply. It is nice to hear from someone that understands what I'm going through.

. In March of 2009 my grandfather passed away, but to me he was more like a father. My grandfather was the glue that held my family together. My grandfather was a successful business man and he made sure that my family always had everything that they needed. If there was ever a problem you could go to him and he would find a solution to the problem. If anyone stepped out of line he would be the first to put you back in line. My mother was his only daughter of his three children and she was his pride and joy and me being the only son of his daughter he kept me very close to him at all times. You could say I was his favorite of all his grandchildren. I didn’t know at the time but looking back now I see that my grandfather had choose me to take his position in the family if anything ever happened to him. My grandfather taught me everything he knew from business, how the world works, how to take on hardship, morals and ethics of how to take care of your family and how to deal with life. My grandfather knew that when he died the family would fall apart and he needed someone there to take charge once he was gone. His predictions were right. After he died the family went through tragic times, my father told my mother he was leaving and wanted a divorce 2 weeks after the death of my grandfather, my grandmother was and still is in grief stricken mourning, and my uncles began to fight and still to this day rarely talk to one another. These events then took my role in the family from me being the only child with little roles to play to the head of the family who had to comfort a grieving widow, a newly divorced mother in mourning and a boy who had to become a man to glue a broken family back together. I miss him and think about him everyday. They say that time will heal your pain, but i don't think that is correct it seems to me that I will never get over my grandfather's death but I have just started to cope with it so that I can continue my life. There will never be another person as important to me as my grandfather was.