1. A phase of yearning and searching for the lost figure which can last months or,often years.

A
period of intense inner struggle in which awareness of the reality of death conflicts with a strong
impulse torecover the lost person and thelost family structure.
2. A phase of greater orless degree of reorganization, development of new set of assumptions that
includes finding a new personal identity.
3. Parkes (1967, pp. 62-64) describes bereavement like a ‘sickness’.He shows that most people who
have sufferedamajor loss eventually experience a regaining of strength which can be called
‘recovery’,or ‘reintegration’, or ‘acceptance’.

Participants have expressed their concerns on the well-being of their mothers who seemed to be
in a phase of yearning and searching for the lost figure of a father in a family. They observed
how their mothers deal with their inner struggles in accepting the reality of death while having in
mind the necessity to recover their enthusiasm and determination in rebuilding the lost structure
of the family. Moreover, participants have mentioned that their vulnerabilities as they are still in
the painful process of reorganizing what was left and develop an entirely new set of postulations
that will allow them to find and create new identities to satisfy the basic intersubjective relations
within the family and in the society. The emotional state of a mother should not be taken for
granted as their bereavement and mourning could affect the well-being of other members of the
family. It is therefore necessary that mothers have to regain their strength in the form of
reintegration to the new set-up and structure and the acceptance of the reality of death.