My mum died nearly 30 years ago, when I was 3 years old. I do have a wonderful stepmother, but obviously I never had a typical mother/daughter relationship. Still it was overall a happy childhood for me.
When I had my first child, a boy, I felt sad not to have my mum around like everyone else seems to. But recently it feels a bit worse - DC2 is a girl, and she is now the age that I was when my mum was diagnosed. I keep wondering how it must have felt for my mum, to see this little girl running around with her big brother, and knowing that she wouldn't be around much longer.
I know it is daft and I know I am not my mum and the same thing is not going to happen to me, but I feel so sorry for my mum, and I think a bit of me looks at my daughter and sees me, iykwim.
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Those whose mums died young - having a mother-daughter relationship
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FimbleHobbs · 05/05/2009 16:15
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