Dear Judy,
Our mother died 2 weeks ago at 56. We loved her very much (there are 2 of us, both sisters in our late 20’s) and we are both writing you because we don’t know what to do.
She was very happily married to our father (we thought). He is 70. Her death made him cry [...]
Dear Judy,
My husband’s supervisor was my lover for 2 years. We broke up when his wife found out about us. It was excruciatingly painful, at least for me, and I never got over it.
That was 4 years ago. My husband as far as I know never heard about the affair. And I want to keep [...]
Dear Judy,
Our father, a drunk, a coke addict, and a womanizer, wants to come to our mother’s funeral. They were divorced for over a decade. We don’t want him around, not at our house, not at the graveside, not in church.
How do we make this clear to him? Or do we have to include him? [...]
Dear Judy
I’m so mad I can’t see straight. My mother’s favorite brother just died, and of course I expected to go to the funeral because we all loved my uncle.
But guess what? It turns out his adult children — my first cousins — are adamently opposed to funerals, which one of them calls “death festivals”! So [...]
Dear Judy,
My brother died. He was 48 and involved with a woman not his wife. Who knew? I didn’t! He died in the saddle, I’m afraid, and yes, I’m the one supposed to deliver the eulogy.
I liked my brother, but he had issues, shall we say… His widow, who’s had her eyes opened by recent events, [...]
Dear Judy,
Last year, my husband’s father died. His side of the family spent $24,000 on the funeral (casket, lined vault, large engraved headstone, violins, limos, the works).
My mother just died yesterday: I am not overwhelmed for a lot of reasons. We didn’t get along and she was expected to die for quite some time, among [...]
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Posted on January 24th, 2009