Emotionally dead or normal?

Somehow my muse has gotten me to examine the normalicy of interpersonal relationships as far as ones parents are concerned. In reading a story recently I found the author was extremely distraught over the loss of her parents; it took months for her to begin to function relatively normally again.

My relationship with my parents was such that I did not really feel much at the death of my biological parents. Oh, I was and am sorry for the painful lives that they led but that is about it. Upon finding out about the death of my step father, I actually said, "good, now he can't hurt anyone else".

Now, the loss of my own spouse was a much different matter. That took a couple years and the shadow of the loss is still seen in my life once in a while.

There must be a range of normal emotion in there somewhere, or not. I'd really be interested in reading about how the loss of one close to you affected you.

Many Blessings

Gwen