Asking Eric: Dear friends didn’t tell me of serious troubles as I dealt with my mom’s death
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Dear Eric: I have a few longtime friends. After four years of caretaking, my mom passed away from dementia. After that, I had to arrange for the selling of furnishings and the house. My 65-year-old brother who shared the house with her has cerebral palsy and required round-the-clock care. So, I had to arrange all that.
During this approximately 18-month period, one friend went through and survived breast cancer and another lost her life to a brain tumor. Sadly, none of the other friends ever let me know about these sweet friends.
I know I can’t feel guilty about what I didn’t know about, but I feel like I needed support and still do as I mourn.
Am I so easily forgettable to not be included in these lifelong friends’ trials? I feel terribly inconsequential. The guilt I feel is becoming burdensome.
How do I move forward? They don’t include me now in anything. I know I was preoccupied, but it was with good reason.
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– Feeling Lost
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