Dear Mum,
It's nearly Christmas again 23/12/2017 and I am crying with my grief of not having you here. You loved Christmas, a time for all the family to gather with you and enjoying your lovely cooking. Dad is so remote now that he doesn't feel like my dad anymore, he has moved away and has a new life, with a new family that he is more interested in than us. He actually told me off for saying once that I missed you. So I'm not allowed to mention you anymore. My grief is still there and I don't believe it will ever go. Everyone else seems fine and getting on with life. I miss talking to you. It feels like I have no parents now. Dad is so self absorbed, distant and completely changed. He is like a stranger to me. Things will never be the same, we shall never be the family we once were.
Cheryl
23rd December 2017