The grief over losing one son I found almost too much to bear. How Mary Todd Lincoln continued to function with the crosses she had to carry is beyond me.
Grief
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Amen.
A set of my great-grandparents lost their two daughters in a scarlet fever outbreak in 1892. Their 3d child was my grandfather,born in 1894. My mother’s hypothesis about mother and son was ‘she didn’t love him because she didn’t dare’ (I’ve read a sample of her correspondence from 1915; she loved him). She was more congenial with her younger son, but her younger son married an ordinary woman and her older son married an unusually diplomatic woman with a phlegmantic disposition. When she and her husband had to move in with their children, it was nine months with the irascible son and three months with the agreeable son. My grandmother was fond of her father-in-law, she found her mother-in-law one of the trials you encounter in family life (as well as a cautionary tale about too many generations of cousins marrying).
Praying for your son.
May he rest in peace.
Thank you lepanto, much appreciated.