Grief over the loss of a child does not have a set end point or finish line; it is a permanent experience that one learns to live alongside forever.

“I think people look at grief as stages or at some point it's going to end. The pain is going to end. We look at grief as this finish line. I feel like for a lot of people of I grieved for this amount of time or I was sad for this amount of time and then that's not how it works. It's it's never endin”