Do you wish you wish you had said something to your mum/dad before they died

After I left university I lived at our family home for a short time and, once I had a job, I moved to a flat-share. My mother was devastated and deeply hurt. After all, in her generation you lived with your parents until you got married. Moreover, the flat was nothing like so comfortable as the family home.

I was sorry that she felt abandoned and wrote her a long letter in which I told her that I no longer needed her to cook my meals or do my laundry but that I relied on her to comfort me when I was sad, rejoice with me when I was successful, to love me unconditionally and be my "go to" person when I was puzzled or confused.

After she died, many years later, I found the letter safely tucked away in a drawer in her bedroom. So I did say something special and important to her before she died – and she knew it.

No, I tried countless times while they were alive, and nothing changed. If they’d lived to be a thousand years I doubt it would have made much difference.

You, on the other hand, describe a great childhood, which you would have expressed at the time. He/ they knew....have no fear about that.

I too would have liked to ask my mother and father what made them so cruel.

Also my stupid this mother who always bragged that she had a suitcase packed ready for emergency hospital visits ( she had a wealthy friend she liked to emulate who did the same)
“ You don’t need to worry it’s there on the landing all packed”

It was but the silly woman locked it, we never found the key.

I’d love to ask what the heck she was thinking when she did that!

Only what I told her during her lifetime 'I love you mum'. I just wish I could have told her one last time before she died.