Those cards with a name missing 😥

Yes it’s started.
The Christmas cards with only one name out of the couple you sent a card to.
What happened, when, how callous must I have seemed not to be aware or worse to ignore that someone has died?

This happened to me this weekend when a phone call from the widower of one of DH’s (slightly distant) cousins rang to say his wife had died earlier in the year. It’s all very well to say I didn’t know, but I remember how each card addressed to both of us brought me a little lower after DH died.

When there’s no card at all- have they stopped sending cards, is someone too ill to face the task, or has the card just got lost in the post?
There’s a lesson in there about the importance of keeping in touch while we still can isn’t there?