my mother is dying

[anniebelle]

73. So very sorry kpete.

I can relate ~ I didn't really have a relationship with my mother until one year before she died at the age of 82. I took care of her for that year when she could not care for herself ~ I know she had terrible problems with showing love and really tried to not let that turn me into an unforgiving daughter, but her lack of love for me influenced my entire life and not in a good way at all. I am now 72 and she's been gone for 16 years, so I can look at her life now and understand more. My father was killed in WWII when he was only 28 and she was 27. She had my 2 1/2 yr. old brother and I was 4 months old when he was killed in Germany ~ she never remarried and carried her grief like an anchor. Mother's Day has always torn my heart to shreds.