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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsHow about a "happy" for the non-holiday women today? (My family women have passed)
And my surviving sister never mothered.
hlthe2b
(102,343 posts)When you've lost your own Mother and there are not others in your family, it is a tough day because no one really considers that... But, now the memories sustain me and I celebrate Mothers of all kinds, including those from the animal kingdom and our own cross-species role in "Mothering" our furry family members....
I posted this earlier. It somehow makes me feel part of that much larger Earthly family.
Link to tweet
UTUSN
(70,725 posts)csziggy
(34,137 posts)And the third for my husband without his. My oldest sister who was a mother died in 1993. I have sisters in law, a niece in law, and nieces (on my husband's side) who are mothers but that is not the same.
Staph
(6,253 posts)we celebrated all mothers, grandmothers, aunts, daughters and sisters. Basically a celebration of all women and what we do in and for the world.
On Father's Day, we do the same thing for all the men of the church.