Dear Queenie,
Recently one of my children passed away from illness. I still have my two other children and they keep me busy, but I find it annoying and not comforting at all when someone tells me I should concentrate on them and the fact that I still have them, and not on my loss.
Queenie, what is a polite response to that kind of advice?—Mother in mourning
Dear Mother,
Tell them – politely!!! – that you have never stopped loving and taking care of your remaining children, but that does not ease the pain of your loss.
