They have lives over there the way we do here, where they can accomplish, achieve and assist. It's like a loved one meeting you at an airport. I would say an overwhelming feeling of love. That's certainly far superior than any physical kind of embrace. The souls in the hereafter try to help us understand that everything that happens to us in our lifetime, even having a loved one pass, is a lesson that we will learn from and benefit from in the hereafter.
Nothing happens without a reason here.
And every lesson is designed to help us learn more on how to love and be more like the infinite light, the source of all light and love. Once we have our lesson, we get to graduate on to the peace and beauty of the hereafter. Part of our loved one's job in the hereafter is to be a kind of guardian angel from their unique vantage point to help us to complete the lessons that we are here to learn. But it is up to us to use the time we have here wisely and to benefit and learn from even the most tragic or difficult lesson on the earth. The souls tell me that the reward of life there is worth every second of pain we go through here.