Bernard Branagan whose wife Zipporah died suddenly leaving him as the sole carer of their seven boys now hopes to set up a group for those who are grieving.
He made the decision after receiving more than 1,500 messages from people who lost loved ones after her posted a video about his situation.
00:00Hey, I've just come on here just to say thanks to absolutely everyone. Over the last few weeks since I put out my first video, there's over 1500 messages directly to me.
00:14So many people going through the same pain. One woman, 30 years she's in this and she says it hasn't got any easier. And I've been blown away by the people and the lack of sort of people getting together to talk about this.
00:32And I really wanted to do something. But just to tell you the reason why I've done my first video, just over three weeks ago, I was putting my boys to bed.
00:43And all that evening I was talking about their mother and how wonderful a woman she was and how incredible she was to me, to them and everything she's done for us was just out of this world.
00:54And I was putting them all to bed and I kissed them every night. One kiss from me and one kiss from their mother.
01:02And Isaac, the fourth child, turned around and says to me, Daddy, if Mommy was such a wonderful person and God was so good, why didn't God take two bad people and leave Mommy behind for us?
01:13And that absolutely broke my heart in two.
01:18And you think you're getting kicked sometimes. You're getting constantly kicked with children when they ask these innocent questions.
01:26There's just so much pain in them, I see, and in everyone.
01:30And over them 1,500 matches that I've got, I've heard so many different people telling me how much pain they're in.
01:38And the only thing I can do is try to help.
01:40So on the 28th of this month, the Bourndale in Newcastle, we're going to host a night with anyone suffering from grief that wants to come tell their story.
01:51You can come and listen or you can come and listen till people tell their story about grief.
01:55And hopefully that night we get something out of it, all of us.
02:00As you can see in the background, Zephyr's with us and she'll always be with us.
02:03But I'm not alone in this passage of grief that I'm going through.
02:08And I want everyone just to understand a little bit more about grief that we're not alone.
02:15We're not alone. For the matches I've got, I've been blown away.
02:17And I'll put a poster up on all my social media outlets here.
02:24And hopefully that, if you want to come, direct mail me a message to me.
02:30And I'll put your name down on the list.
02:32There is a limited number of seats.
02:34So please, please send me a direct message if you want to come.
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