New Year's Eve After Losing a Parent: The First Year They Won't Be In
New Year's Eve after losing a parent often hurts in a different way than Christmas. It isn't about a missing chair so much as the calendar moving on without them, into the first year they'll never be part of. You don't have to celebrate, make resolutions or stay up until midnight. A small, chosen plan for the night, and a gentle one for January, usually helps more than pushing through.