Being a Motherless Daughter and a Mother on Mother’s Day

It is thirty three years since my mother died. She died before I had any children of my own. I was blessed with a beautiful and very much loved stepmother who lived overseas, so I didn’t get to see her very often. She died two years ago.

The thought of Mother’s Day can quite easily trigger old memories, flashbacks, and put added stress and strain onto already high expectations of how “Mother’s Day should be.”

Mother’s Day for me, has always brought about mixed emotions. I have...

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