It’s 6 months today since Mum died. There aren’t really any words to put to it. It’s just a fact.
A lot has changed in the past 6 months. I live somewhere new, I’ve made new friends, I’ve lost a few friends, I stopped going to uni and started volunteering at a few places and doing a course at Mind, I started a new job, and I’m slowly trying to develop some sort of a social life.
There have been some great things and some not-so-great things.
I thought maybe I’d start to miss Mum a little less, but at the moment I seem to be missing her more and more. I’m not sure why, perhaps it’s the weather, who knows. 6 months-post death and people stop asking. Not a criticism on anyone, life moves on, people move on, and there’s not a lot you can update when it comes to grief (as opposed to illness where something happens all the time). Sometimes I just want a Mum hug though, they’re different to other hugs. It can feel like all I need is one hug and I’ll be on my way. I didn’t live with Mum in her final years so it’s not like I saw her every day, but we did text often and I knew where she was if I needed her – I suppose I always took that for granted. She wasn’t meant to die.
So 6 months have passed. Soon there will be another 6 months, and then another. I just hope that with each passing 6 months, things get a little easier.
So sorry that you are going through this. My mum died back in 1989 and I still miss her. My best analogy is that it is like having your arm cut off – you learn to live with it but you never recover completely.
I like that anaolgy 🙂 It shows that life can become manageable again.
I am 54 and lost my Mum in January – she was 93. And, all I want right now is a Mum hug too. Bless you … it is so, so, hard and to loose your Mum so early takes a lot of adjusting to. Hold on. In my prayers.
Thank you xxx
Thinking of you.
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Thank you xxx
You’re very welcome.
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