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Anticipating loneliness and being alone…

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Sadnessinside · 04/03/2023 20:48

I’m really close to my mum and recently she’s been diagnosed with Level 3/4 heart failure.
She’s 83 next month and whilst I’m aware she won’t be around forever I now fear the future. I am married but he’s got his own business and is always working. Im not as bothered as I once was as over the years we’ve grown apart anyway. We do have an adult DD who has ADD/ASD and lives at home. Whilst we get along ok, we are very different and don’t share the same type of relationship my mum and I do. I don’t think we ever will either, unfortunately,

I worry so much once my mum has gone that the loneliness will be unbearable and how I will cope. Has anyone been through anything similar?
how did you get through this?

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