Comments on: It wasn’t all about me, afterall

By: b5media - a global blog network - Valentine’s Greetings from the Family and Relationships Channel

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 12:42:18 +0000

[...] Hopefully, you aren’t traveling away from your family and friends today, but if you are, Elizabeth at Career and Kids has some tips for you. And maybe your seatmate will be as good a listener as the guy she met at a family friend’s funeral. Char at Weary Parent is a great listener and tells you how she gets her kids to talk to her. (Something those Hotties’ parents need to work on.) [...]

By: Jenn

Jenn — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 23:59:39 +0000

I’m sorry to say I’m confused. In the beginning you said the guy’s father was a paulbearer but then you said he was in hospice and wasn’t at the funeral. Did I miss something?

By: tanya

tanya — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:54:22 +0000

We found out my mother had cancer in june of 2003. I was pregnant with my son at the time and had not told anyone because of previous miscarriages. I told her the end of May and then we found out first of June she had cancer. She went into hospice in September and died in October. My son was born in December. Hospice is a WONDERFUL THING for families.

By: newscoma

newscoma — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 01:13:03 +0000

The 8th anniversary of my mother’s death is Feb. 28. This club isn’t fun, but the empathy that we all experience is quite amazing.
I still miss her.
And he probably needed to hear about this because he knew he was fixing (I’m so Southern) to go through it himself.
I felt that way before she left. Like I wanted to absorb how to feel about everything. Little did I know we all go through the same thing but it’s different because of our own experiences.
Thinking good thoughts,
Trace

By: Nana

Nana — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 17:29:59 +0000

It was really nice of him to listen to you and not try to bring the conversation around to the situation with his own father. I’m sure you’ve acknowledge the death of his father in some way – either by a nice card or a phone call – and if you haven’t, you should do that soon. (That’s the “mom” in me – I always feel like I should remind my own daughters about these things and I really don’t – sorry!)