My bitter mum cut me off two years ago after my dad died of cancer
DEAR DEIDRE: MUM was so bitter after losing Dad to cancer that she hasn’t spoken to me in two years.
She’s 68 and I’m her 46-year-old daughter.
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Dad died four years ago. Some people say grief loses its sting over time but for Mum it has got worse.
She started to resent the fact I still have a husband.
She even tried to make me choose between them. I told her she wasn’t being fair.
After all, we had been married for 20 years and have three kids together.
Since then she’s cut me off. I keep trying to get back in contact.
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I send her birthday cards and Mother’s Day flowers. But it does nothing.
I just wish she would talk to me.
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DEIDRE SAYS: It is to be admired that you are so sympathetic and patient with your mum.
But she needs help you cannot give her.
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Perhaps talk to her GP about her change in character and suggest she sees a counsellor.
And contact StandAlone () which supports those estranged from their family.