My mum suffers with severe depression and all her life she has only had one trusted friend. They have been friends for 40 years. I remember this lady being a fixture of my childhood in that she'd come round for coffee, we'd all go for walks etc. Mum rarely leaves the house other than to meet up with me or this friend.
Yesterday we found out my mum's friend had died suddenly; it was totally out of the blue.
My mum has gone to pieces and I am struggling to deal with it too. I keep crying but feel like a fraud as she was my mother's friend not mine. I feel so desperately sad that she died the way she did, alone and outside in the cold, and I feel my mother's heartbreak.
Am I being the worst kind of grief jumper? AIBU to be so overwhelmed with sadness at the death of a lady I personally hadn't actually seen in years?