
What If This Was Goodbye?
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The last time David Bishop spoke to his father, they were both angry. His father's final words were, "Just don't contact me again." David honored that request. Years later, his father died from lung failure after seventy years of smoking. They never reconciled. David never got to say goodbye.
Now his mother has Alzheimer's disease. She lives in a thirty-minute loop, asking the same questions, telling the same stories. Every visit could be the last time she recognizes her son.
What If This Were Goodbye? is the book David wished someone had handed him before it was too late with his father-and the book he's writing while he still has time with his mother.
Part memoir, part practical guide, this book explores the daily habits that slowly destroy our most important relationships: the sharp words we excuse, the attention we withhold, the grudges we nurture, the love we assume people already know. These small choices accumulate into permanent damage, and most of us don't realize it until someone is gone.
Through raw personal narrative and hard-won wisdom, Bishop introduces The Goodbye Method-a three-part framework for transforming how we relate to the people who matter most:
The Mortality Mirror helps us see our relationships through the lens of limited time. The G.I.F.T. Filter offers four daily practices: Guard your tongue, Invest your attention, Forgo the grievance, Tell them they matter. The Parting Grace transforms ordinary goodbyes into meaningful moments of connection.
This isn't a book about dying. It's about learning to live-and love-while there's still time. It's about breaking generational patterns of emotional distance. It's about having the conversations you're avoiding and releasing the grievances that poison your relationships.
For anyone carrying the weight of unspoken words, unresolved conflict, or relationships slowly dying from neglect-let David's "too late" become your "just in time."
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Person
Two lives,
one story.
By day, I'm the President of , an industrial automation firm where I've spent 39+ years making very complicated things work properly for Fortune 500 companies.
By night, I write about marriage?sometimes with humor, sometimes with hard truth.
Wide Awake goes deeper. It's for the 3 AM version of you?the one lying awake, worried about your marriage, wondering if things will ever change. The Mirror Principle at its core is simple: before you examine your spouse, examine yourself.
The Sacred Off Switch challenges our addiction to infinite distraction. We check our phones over 2,600 times a day, but what if the path back to God, your spouse, and yourself begins with choosing to turn it off?
I've also written the "Definitely" series?satirical takes on marriage that let couples laugh at themselves?and a children's book about a very good dog named Henry.
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