Thanksgiving Blues...anyone else missing your loved ones this Thanksgiving??

I lost my son in May, been thinking about him a lot recently. Definitely going to be a subdued holiday season this year.

Both my dds will be spending Thanksgiving elsewhere due to travel expense(they live quite far away )but I will get to see them at Christmas.
But yes, I will be missing my parents, my sister and my son. My parents have both been gone many years but holidays were big for them and it's never been the same since. My sister has been gone a lot of years but another life cut too quickly, and it happened the weekend following Thanksgiving so this time of year is definitely bittersweet, at best. My son only had 1 Christmas with us but it left me with many memories and lots of pictures of a dear sweet boy that left too soon.
Life is way too short so show the people in your life how much you care about them. I am so sorry to those who will be seeing empty spaces around the table this year.

I lost my parents five years ago, and I just buried my oldest brother in May. My brother and his wife are joining us for the first time.

Thank you for posting this. This is a pretty sad time of the year for me. I lost my mom right after Thanksgiving 2 years ago to cancer. I was her caregiver and she lived with me. I can't experience this time of year without reliving the pain of that last Thanksgiving dinner and all kinds of poignant and sad memories that accompanied her last few weeks. My mom and I were incredibly close, like best friends. I used to love Thanksgiving, but now it is super hard for me. I am sure many of us have something like this, it's important to acknowledge the grief too that can come with holidays when we are missing someone.

The. Holidays are always very hard for me as well. 6 years ago my brother committed suicide on thanksgiving day. My father passed away on Christmas Eve. Another brother died from leukemia on January 3 and another brother from pancreatic cancer on feb 5. Out of 6 siblings I only have 1 brother left. Sister passed away 6 months after a brother... and all my siblings were not even 55 yrs old. So the holiday get together is very small compared to what I used to have. So every year I tend to gain weight. This year I am working hard on not doing that. I know ones that we have lost would want us to take care of ourselves and to look at not what we have lost, but what we still have. Bless you all.

Lost my 28 year old great-niece last weekend. Even though we knew it was coming, you can't prepare for the loss. Going to be a rough Thanksgiving for the whole family.

Every Thanksgiving is hard for me. When I was 16 years old my grandmother was murdered on Thanksgiving. My way of dealing with it is to ignore the holiday, pretty much. It is just another day for me. I have never liked turkey and all the trimmings. We're having a relaxing day at home. I am doing spa treatments and having homemade pizza and blackberry crumble for "Thanksgiving".

I feel for all of you who have a hard time with this or any holiday. Hang in there!