I’m talking about what the lyrics of “Made for More” meant to me as it pertains to our son’s tragic death and our future.
Category: Jeb
Ready to Forgive
One thing I had to do was definitively forgive the people who rented our house – Tony and Angel. They destroyed it – cost us $150,000 to repair it and we’re not done yet. We still have the basement to fix. Their negligence ripped us out of our life and forced a new life on …
What Parents Wished You Knew About the Grief of Losing a Child
I was added to a “Loss of a child” support group right after Jeb’s funeral. I don’t post a lot there because that’s not how I process this, but it regularly appears in my newsfeed because it’s a local group to where we used to live and I think there’s some algorithm that helps that …
Keeping Your Marriage Strong After Tragic Loss
When Jeb was killed, Gregg and I heard over and over again that the statistic was super high for divorce after child death. Actually, it’s not that high. About 16% of marriages end in divorce after the death of a child, and only about 8% say it was because of the death. So, that’s good …
The Story of What Happened to Jeb
We have intentionally kept the details of what happened to our son Johnathan Eugene Bridgeman – “Jeb” – quiet because there was an active police investigation. We felt it was better to wait until everything was finalized. Gregg found out yesterday that the investigation is closed. I feel like it’s important to share, because there …