I think I had a similar reaction to my mother's death, although hers was drawn out over a period of years; a lost battle with breast cancer. I think I only miss

I think I had a similar reaction to my mother's death, although hers was drawn out over a period of years; a lost battle with breast cancer. I think I only miss her more with each year. It's been 7 years. Part of the trouble I think was that some important people around me basically collapsed from grief. And so it felt like the entire family just sort of disintegrated when she died. No way to process any of what happened. Just a lot of denial. The way things happen on the Hallmark channel is a sort of sickening caricature.