Your post touched me in a soft spot. At 61, I'm still wishing I had had my mother's understanding, caring and PROTECTION! I still look for it from others since she's been gone for over 20 yrs. It's a hole I can't fill even if I get that from other loved ones, which in reality, isn't all that much.

There's a saying I like very much, but I have yet to prove it 100%. "If it's going to be, it's up to me." What that means is that *I* have to find a way to fill that hole because I'll never get it from my mother. Maybe you won't either?

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