Chatting to DH earlier about relatives dying. He was saying that he is concerned that he feels little emotion at the thought of his parents dying. His grandma is unwell and he was saying that he doesn’t feel anything about the prospect of her dying, only duty to go to the funeral. They were close in his childhood but since teenage years that relationship faltered (this is despite the whole family spending summer holidays there until he was about 21). So it isn’t that he never had a relationship with them, though he does have quite a formal relationship with his parents.
He went so far to say that the only thing he feels really raw emotion about is the thought of DC dying.
Does anyone else feel this way? Or do people think it’s likely because of problems in his relationships with those people or rather something ‘wrong’ with him? I was saying he should speak to someone about it, but maybe it’s quite a normal way for people to feel? Just not spoken about much?