I think you explained it really well, Laura.
I also told Silverlock about this excellent book, called Good Grief, by Granger E. Westberg. It's helped many people including me... in fact, I keep mailing mine off to people who suffer loss, and when I do, John buys me a new one. It's very small and not real expensive, and it might help.
And I made a suggestion here:[link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=217231|http://z.iwethey.org...?contentid=217231]
that also might help.
Brenda