5 Stages of Grief: Saying goodbye to SVMoms
Perhaps you’ve heard of Dr. Kubler-Ross’s five stages of grief, a framework for helping patients with terminal illnesses understand the psychology of dealing with death. While coming to terms with the end of the Silicon Valley Mom’s Group isn’t even near the same ballpark, much less in it, by looking askance at this framework I thought maybe I could find a new way to process my feelings of grief and loss. (Lest you think I’m being mean, or that I’ve really gone off the deep end, the following psychological break-down is tongue-in-cheek.) It went something like this:
1. Denial Nope. Not happening. This is NOT ending. Management team members, I’m going to sleep on your doorsteps until you admit that this is a joke. You’re just trying to get rid of the rif-raff, right? I mean, please, 400+ writers?!? Who could possibly handle that many bloggers without going insane? No, no, no. Someone is going to swoop in and take over. There are just too many ‘net-savvy parents on this site to think that none of them would be willing to buy you out and save us all. I’m sticking around and you’re not getting rid of me. I can wait out the coup d’etat. So there.
2. Anger Really? Have you Founding Mothers slipped on your kids’ iPods and hit your heads? After all these years, all this time and energy and expense--not just yours, but your contributing writers’, after all the momentum, great press, and positive feedback you’ve garnered, you’re going to just drop SVMomsGroup like an over-heated Dell laptop? You have some serious sass thinking you can boot us all out like this. And-anothuh-thing. What about our old posts, hunh? Are we high-and-dry there, too? Are you just going to close down and that’s it? THIS SUCKS!
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