not sad over loss?

[Wisconsin]

my aunt died a week before Christmas two years ago...i never once cried. sure i felt the shock but i never even shed one tear. is that bad? she was my dads sister and he was never close to any family except his mother. ive stayed the night at his other sisters houses but never this aunts. i never really knew here even tho i saw her every year at Christmas and new year. and to be honest...i was actually afraid of her.....she was always so loud and blunt. always spoke her mind and never held back. so as a little boy i was afraid of her so i grew up like that. so i stayed away from her. so what do you say? is it bad or just normal because i grew up afraid of her? i'm not at all relieved that shes gone now, no not at all but i'm just a little confused:confused::confused::confused:

[Quahog]

Well, it's normal to not cry over a death. Some people take/accept death of a loved one differently than others. I'm pretty sure that you are sad about her death, but you just show it in different ways, other than crying.

[scuba steve]

You didn't know her and only seen her two days a year, would you cry if your dentist died? That's what I thought.

[Skeptical Bear]

It's not bad. When my aunt died, I only cried because I saw her body there, in front of me. If I didn't, I probably wouldn't have cried because I barely knew her. You just didn't know her well enough to have that kind of emotion "connection" with her. It doesn't mean you didn't care that she passed away. Your relationship with her wasn't strong enough. That's all.

[Fiction]

Everyone takes death differently. plus you only saw her twice a year. |When my auntie died I only cried once, and that was more frm the shock of it than anything else. Also I saw my aunt more often and was quite a bit younger- only 11.

It's pretty normal; I wouldn't worry about it.