Lauren Flake - Grief & Texas
This will be my eleventh Mother’s Day since my mother died. When Mother’s Day is hard because you lost your mom Every day has felt like Mother’s Day since my mother’s diagnosis with Alzheimer’s disease in May, 17 years ago. Honoring and protecting her became my life’s work during her illness. Now that she is […]
I still feel jealous when I see women my age hanging out with their mothers. And I still feel angry when I hear women my age complaining about their moms.* These feelings hit me especially hard around Mother’s Day. I don’t get to hang out with my mom anymore because she’s dead. Unfortunately, I don’t […]