Hi I have made an account finally after so many years of just using reddit but this reddit page has helped quite a bit.

I came across this quote and it really has me feeling empty. My mother passed away 2012 so 10 years ago when I was 15 and this quote has made me realise in 6 years it'll be true for me.

We as a family have not been the same since she passed, for the longest part of the 10 years no one spoke about my mum siblings, aunts, uncles, grandma and my dad of all people it was too painful. Her passing was so sudden because we were out and she was home with my youngest sister we spoke to her 10minutes before we got home to find her collapsed on the floor. The doctors said it wad brain aneurysm. I have just recently been able to speak to people about her without feeling like I am being suffocated and chocked out by my own emotions. She was the one person I've ever been 100% myself with, and not feeling like I needed to hide anything from.

She was the kindest person I've known and even though we grew up poorer than most we never felt it and it was thanks to her. After her passing everything g changed and we all started feeling the huge gap left by her and how much she was shielding us from so being the 3rd eldest of 7 I was forced to grow up overnight and assume responsibility.

It's been 10 years and still feel the emptiness like I just lost a huge part of myself.