My beloved daughter died, totally unexpectedly, aged 24, on 29 October.
We are demented with grief over the loss of her.
DH and I and our other 2 younger children went to Morocco over Christmas to escape the UK. We arrived home and we all went to bed early last night.
I was surprised, upon waking this morning, to find 6 Happy New Year messages via text and WhatsApp (I am not on any other SM). Those were in addition to some other very finely judged messages of support. All the generic messages came from people who knew of the death of our daughter and 3 of them were from really close friends who had been particularly supportive.
I am sure that the messages were sent out to lots of people and I was not specifically chosen. But if you had a very close friend who had lost a child recently, would you take some care not to send a message like that?
I recognise I am hugely emotional and might well be unreasonable to be surprised and a bit upset about this.
I am not going to say anything to these people about it and I shall carry on with them as before. I did find it a bit crass though and slightly upsetting to wake this morning to those messages.
I don’t mind being told I am unreasonable. But please be kind. I am very fragile at the moment.