I miss My Mom and Dad

First of all, let me say all my sympathys to you and yours. i know that i dont know what i would do if i was to lose my family. It's all true when you hear the statment "you dont know what you have till its gone" you can spend your whole life with family problems, but if anything were to happen, you cant deny that you would want them back. my parents are divorced, they have been for about 12/13 years now, and my father is still single living in NY, my mother is re-married to my step-father in CT. i live with my mother and my step-father, and constantly have a fear of something happeneing to my father while im not around. As much as i dont really get along with my step-father or really my mother sometimes, i dont know what i would do without them. they raised me, they are my parents and they are my life. i feel i am nothing without my familyand that would be one of the biggest struggles to bypass in my life, and ive had many struggles. losing my parents or anyone in my family for that matter is not something i want to live through until i know im ready to deal with it as an adult, and i dont think i even do that then. once again, my deepest sympathys, and i hope everything goes and is going well for you and yours.

theyre both okay, and i still have my grandmother from my mother's side

I have a very complex family. firstly, I'm adopted, so there are my birth mother and my birth father. Then, my birth mother has been married twice (but not to my father) so I have 2 step dads thanks to her. Then my adoptive parents divorced and each has either remarried or been in a long term relationships, so I have a step father and step mother there too. oh, and my birth father married as well, so another step mother.! lol. All are alive except for my step father who passed away a couple of years ago from pancreatic cancer, but I at least got to meet him once. I treat all of them with respect, even though they tick me off somewhat. My birth mother keeps insisting on sending me these chain emails that take forever to come through to my inbox, many with hidden viruses that my security system has to disable, hence how long it takes to retrieve them. i've told her time again not to send them because I just delete them anyway. I don't have time to be sending them onto other people who are just going to delete them or growl at me for sending them. I received one the other day from her that was soooo long it took 45 mins for it to come through. Meanwhile, hubby was trying to load some links for his work, and getting frustrated because it was all so slow. It put him behind by a couple of hours at least. It only got deleted any way. My adoptive mum is always nagging me to keep in touch or that they don't get to see us enough. Well, we don't have the best car at all, unlike them. Our income is much lower so we can't really afford to be spending the weekend with them, as a day trip isn't really worth it. They have my email and phone numbers, but do you think they use them? NO, and they are the ones complaining!!!!

Hi Marcia-my parents divorced when I was young my father lives quite away away from my sister and I-yet we keep in contact over the phone-my mother lives not far away and my son and daughter get on with her really well we see her quite a bit-your friend littleowl

I'm with you. If you still have your parents treat them with respect. Without them you wouldn't be here. My dad passed away when I was 20. I have also lost a stepdad. My mom is still alive and married again. I don't get to spend as much time with her as I'd like but I do call her.

I'm sorry hear that,it's bad news to everybody.I think you will glad in heaven if you work and study hard. My Mom and Dad are healthy,they are both 48 years old.

Marcia, Sorry that you lost your parents so very long ago.I have been so very fortunate. However I do live 1,000 miles away from mine. Butmy fater did pass away in 2000. He was a very wonderful sweet person, we were very close. My moter is 86 years old she is still alive and has been re-married for along time. My step-dad is a great man too, they both have done so much for me. If it were not for them, I really do not know where I would be today. For one thing I would most likely be homeless, as they sold me this house back in 1990 for $150 a month for 10 years, so that I would always have a roof over my head.I owe them so much.They have been there for me even when I was older.I have always had the best parents and step-parents in the world.I talk to them every day, but I sure wish I could see them more often.