I feel like a different person since my mum passed away, like I'm driving a ship with my husband alongside me and we're leading these four children into unknown waters.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm incredibly sad that my mother's not here to see my kids and that my kids don't get to know her. And she didn't meet my husband. That's one of the hardest things. I don't even know how to put that into words.
I'm ultimately a widow and a single mother, who's not even getting to be a mother right now. I am so alone, it's freaky.
During my grief, I realised there was nothing I could do for my mother, but I did have a child.
Such is my experience - not that I ever mourned the loss of a child, but that I consider myself as lost!
Whenever I feel like I'm getting too far away from where I need to be, I think about my sons and the legacy I have to leave for them - and it always brings me back to reality.
I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them.
I'm starting my own family, and there is no other feeling like it.
I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.
I feel like I died as a child.
My mother left behind three daughters when she went to America and started a new life. I certainly felt abandoned when my father died of a brain tumour; I felt he had abandoned me to this terrible, volatile mother and I had no protection.