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I'm 11.

And welcome to the program.

Hello, I am very eager to get your advice on my situation.

My mother passed away in April. It was right as the pandemic was starting. We did not have a service until August to which was also in conjunction with her birthday.

And we made it very social distance. We took all the precautions and my mother's three sisters whom we were all very close did not come to the service.

It hurt my feelings terribly. I felt it was disrespectful to my mom.

I do have a question for you.

Okay. Can somebody really miss somebody was died and be grieving for them profoundly without showing up to this sort of event. Is it possible.

I do believe that is possible. Yes, man. Stop talking. Stop talking. Then stop talking and stop being pissy and just spend your time missing your mom.

Stop talking about it.

Or you mean stop talking to her and.

No. I asked you a question. Can people mourn without coming to your party.

Your service. Whatever it is. Well, they're mourning. How dare you be pissy at their style of mourning. If they didn't want to come to this event.

What difference does it make. You're like a little kid who threw a party and nobody showed up and your mad and taking it personally.

It's not disrespectful to your mother. It's not disrespectful to you. It's how they chose to mourn.

Okay. I didn't think of it like that because I did take it personally because we were all.

It was outrageous in my never to be humble opinion for you to take it personally.

Had nothing to do with you. Let people mourn in their own way, please.

Okay. So now we're like nearly 10 months since she passed away and no none of the family, none of my mother's sisters, none of my aunt.

And you're more concerned about the social aspect of all of this than you are that your mother is dead.

Now often we do that because the mourning is too painful. So we spend our time being pissy at who did or didn't send flowers in a card and show up at event.

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