Mourning an Estranged parent especially your mother is possible, but emotionally overwhelming and complicated. Thankfully I have never experienced this with my mother because I had a good mom, thank God for that. Now my mom wasn’t perfect by a long shot but she was mine, and I loved her even with all her in perfections. However, I do have friends that disliked their mothers very much because they were abusive or absent most of their young lives. Some of my friends had to be raised by grandparents, aunts, other family members or foster care. This type of environment can sometimes harbor resentment against absentee parents and create instability in a child’s life which can lead to hatred towards mothers who are sometimes deeply void of any type of concern, interest, affection or emotion for their own children.
On the other hand, I mourned my estrange father and I never thought his death would be difficult for me to handle but it was I mean I really experienced intense, powerful mind-numbing confusion and grief over his death and how he died. This event has left me mourning not only his death but also the loss of a fairy-tale, what-may-have-been father-daughter relationship. Did I also tell you that the death of one parent will sometimes cause you to grieve for the other parent that has passed on? Hey, but I digress that’s another traumatic life experience to write about on another occasion, this blog is about mothers. Read more THE LOSS OF AN ESTRANGED MOTHER.
