--- title: Sheryl Sandberg Dreads Father's Day description: In a raw interview, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg talks about her fears after her husband's death. canonical: https://time.com/4751055/sheryl-sandberg-fathers-day/ author: Diane Tsai article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-04-24T11:00:47.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-30T12:23:11.844Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Sheryl Sandberg: 'I Dread Father's Day' og:description: The Facebook COO talks to TIME og:url: https://time.com/4751055/sheryl-sandberg-fathers-day/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt56e517d5ca242c49/6988c400ab6d772e8f6adc2d/sheryl-sandberg-4.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1858 og:image:height: 1045 og:image:alt: Sheryl Sandberg Option B og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Sheryl Sandberg: 'I Dread Father's Day' twitter:description: The Facebook COO talks to TIME twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt56e517d5ca242c49/6988c400ab6d772e8f6adc2d/sheryl-sandberg-4.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Sheryl Sandberg: 'I Dread Father's Day' > Sponsored content. 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A paid TIME subscription is separate and available at time.com/subscribe-agent. ### Sources * TIME Newsletters: [time.com/newsletters](/c/time-nl-inside-2026q3/newsletters?i=4bc455cb-8300-4ec8-a88a-14b6832a1e53&cr=time-nl-inside-2026q3-v1) by [Diane Tsai](https://time.com/author/diane-tsai/) and [Belinda Luscombe](https://time.com/author/belinda-luscombe/) Apr 24, 2017 11:00 AM UTC  Clare Major—TIME by [Diane Tsai](https://time.com/author/diane-tsai/) and [Belinda Luscombe](https://time.com/author/belinda-luscombe/) Apr 24, 2017 11:00 AM UTC One of the hardest things about losing a spouse is that, at the same time you are grieving and feeling hideous, you have to look after your kids who have lost a parent. It’s possible that you could find a new spouse. But a person can only ever have one biological father. Certainly, that’s the case for [Sheryl Sandberg](http://time.com/sheryl-sandberg-option-b/), the [Facebook](http://time.com/4744962/facebook-f8-conference/) COO and author of [_Lean In_](http://motto.time.com/4718126/sheryl-sandberg-lean-in/), whose husband Dave Goldberg, the widely admired CEO of SurveyMonkey, died unexpectedly while they were on vacation in Mexico in 2015\. Sandberg’s new book [_Option B_](https://www.amazon.com/Option-Adversity-Building-Resilience-Finding/dp/1524732680), written with psychologist Adam Grant, is about her struggle with grief, what she learned about overcoming adversity and fostering post-traumatic growth, and how to make a suffering person feel better. “As a mother you can be heartbroken for yourself but I grew up with a dad and he’s still alive,” she told [TIME in an interview](http://time.com/sheryl-sandberg-option-b/) about her new book. “And I’m heartbroken that I was not able to give my children the stability of growing up with two parents, that they lived through and still are living through something so traumatic so young.” In fact, the name of the book came from a conversation Sandberg had with one of her best friends Phil Deutch, a few weeks after Goldberg died. There was a father-child event at the kids’ school, and Sandberg was upset that her husband couldn’t be there. Deutch put his arm around her. “Option A is not available,” he said. “So let’s just kick the s–t out of Option B.” Sandberg shared her journey in a raw interview with TIME. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4751055/sheryl-sandberg-fathers-day/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4751055/sheryl-sandberg-fathers-day/"},"headline":"Sheryl Sandberg: 'I Dread Father's Day'","datePublished":"2017-04-24T11:00:47.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-30T12:23:11.844Z","description":"The Facebook COO talks to TIME","url":"https://time.com/4751055/sheryl-sandberg-fathers-day/","keywords":["Recovery","Grief","Sheryl Sandberg","Interview","video","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt56e517d5ca242c49/6988c400ab6d772e8f6adc2d/sheryl-sandberg-4.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Diane Tsai","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/diane-tsai/"},{"@type":"Person","name":"Belinda Luscombe","jobTitle":"Editor at Large","url":"https://time.com/author/belinda-luscombe/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt56e517d5ca242c49/6988c400ab6d772e8f6adc2d/sheryl-sandberg-4.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Sheryl Sandberg Option B","caption":"","creditText":"Clare Major—TIME","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/recovery/","name":"Recovery"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4751055/sheryl-sandberg-fathers-day/","name":"Sheryl Sandberg: 'I Dread Father's Day'"}}]}] ```