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Discussion
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My mother died after a brief struggle with cancer about ten years ago. My father had passed six years before that.
When my dad died, he visited me in my dreams for several years afterward, mostly in the form of interrupting my dreams by strolling in, saying hi, acting surprised that I was surprised, and meandering out again. He’s more recently been interested in helping me work through some issues, and has done so, in ways that aren’t really relevant here.
My mom’s relationship with me was much closer than my relationship with my dad. She was always my primary caregiver, my dad like barely existed in the family sphere. I loved her very fiercely but there were a lot of ways in which we just never connected. We didn’t really understand each other, I don’t think. There was also quite a lot of neglect that happened, though how much of that was on purpose and how much was just her being overwhelmed by difficult circumstances, I’ve no idea.
Anyway, just wondering why she’s not made an attempt to contact me from the beyond or whatever. It’s just weird to me that it’s been my dad and not her, considering in life it was the opposite.