[Ipg-smz] Going incognito

[Christine Hall]

I come from a large family (I'm the oldest of nine), and none of us 
consider my mother to have been a good mom and we all recognize that the 
was very likely mentally ill, so thankfully I have no such expectations 
with which to deal.

Christine Hall
Publisher & Editor
FOSS Force: Keeping tech free
http://fossforce.com

On 7/23/19 1:35 PM, Esther Schindler via Ipg-smz wrote:
> On Jul 23, 2019, at 10:30 AM, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols via Ipg-smz 
> <ipg-smz at netpress.org <mailto:ipg-smz at netpress.org>> wrote:
>> My mom passed recently and we weren't close either, but it can still 
>> hit you hard.
> 
> Indeed.
> 
> There’s also the battling emotions of “Everyone expects me to be 
> heartbroken and I don’t know what to say.” That’s how I felt after my 
> mother-in-law died. I didn’t shed a tear, but everybody was braced for 
> me to be upset. Dealing with their expectations was… odd.
>