I’m glad to hear about your close and wonderful relationship with your mom and also glad you were able to have that with your daughters. I’m sorry to hear they have estranged themselves.
Your thought that this would have been unimaginable, kind of like the twin towers is a good comparison.
I appreciate hearing from you/connecting on Valentine’s Day!
I ache not only for myself, as both daughters have gone "no-contact", but also collectively for all the parents who had a close relationship with a child that has since been severed. Since cutting off one's parents seems "in", I am feeling a larger ache for mothers in particular, who have lost an essential connection in their life.
I could no more visualize what has happened to thousands of parents than I could visualize the image of planes flying into the twin towers. I had a close and wonderful relationship with my mom, and I had the same with my daughters until just a few years ago. Decades of a close relationship were wiped away, almost casually, and I am not unique.
I appreciate your advice to make space for the ache, Kathy. As much as I'd like to talk myself out of this pain, it just doesn't work, so I'm left to feel it. I miss my daughter and granddaughters so much. And at the same time I am thankful for those in my life present with me, who I can love and who love me in return. Life is so full of ALL the things.
I’m glad to hear about your close and wonderful relationship with your mom and also glad you were able to have that with your daughters. I’m sorry to hear they have estranged themselves.
Your thought that this would have been unimaginable, kind of like the twin towers is a good comparison.
I appreciate hearing from you/connecting on Valentine’s Day!
I ache not only for myself, as both daughters have gone "no-contact", but also collectively for all the parents who had a close relationship with a child that has since been severed. Since cutting off one's parents seems "in", I am feeling a larger ache for mothers in particular, who have lost an essential connection in their life.
I could no more visualize what has happened to thousands of parents than I could visualize the image of planes flying into the twin towers. I had a close and wonderful relationship with my mom, and I had the same with my daughters until just a few years ago. Decades of a close relationship were wiped away, almost casually, and I am not unique.
I appreciate your advice to make space for the ache, Kathy. As much as I'd like to talk myself out of this pain, it just doesn't work, so I'm left to feel it. I miss my daughter and granddaughters so much. And at the same time I am thankful for those in my life present with me, who I can love and who love me in return. Life is so full of ALL the things.