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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 758522" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>That was a beautiful post, Nandina, on a thread of posts both beautiful and deeply felt and expressed. </p><p></p><p>This is my own experience. Many, many mothers feel alone with their grief, guilt and loneliness, regardless of the circumstances of their adult children. If we begin to speak of our experience truly, even if it appears that the other mother would not, could not understand, we create the safe place of "relatable people with whom to talk." To have a voice, to be heard, to feel together begins with risk, imagining that one other person may understand. I am finding that in my own life, by taking that risk with people whom I would not have believed, would understand, I help them to find that place in themselves, to do the same: To risk, and to feel, about themselves and for me.</p><p></p><p>Without here, this virtual experience, I would not have had the capacity nor the will to try.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 758522, member: 18958"] That was a beautiful post, Nandina, on a thread of posts both beautiful and deeply felt and expressed. This is my own experience. Many, many mothers feel alone with their grief, guilt and loneliness, regardless of the circumstances of their adult children. If we begin to speak of our experience truly, even if it appears that the other mother would not, could not understand, we create the safe place of "relatable people with whom to talk." To have a voice, to be heard, to feel together begins with risk, imagining that one other person may understand. I am finding that in my own life, by taking that risk with people whom I would not have believed, would understand, I help them to find that place in themselves, to do the same: To risk, and to feel, about themselves and for me. Without here, this virtual experience, I would not have had the capacity nor the will to try. [/QUOTE]
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