You can only be separated from your loved ones in the physical, it is impossible to experience such separation from the non-physical viewpoint. In the non-physical you can connect with whomever you wish to provided they are happy to respond respond.
Our son who died at 26 in 1994 appeared to our nephew in a dream in early 2020 showing himself to be a man in his 50’s. The following audio session explains the synchronicity between the implicate and the explicate.