Dear Queenie,
I have an amazing family – parents, brothers and sisters, nieces and nephews, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins – and I am close to all of them.
I know it is only natural that I will lose the older ones eventually, but the thought of that happening scares me because I don’t know if I will be able to handle the grief.
Queenie, I need help with this.—Afraid of losing them
Dear Afraid,
Your feelings are normal, although somewhat premature.
The hardest part of losing someone you love is regretting the things you would have wanted them to know but you never told them. So, spend as much time with them as you can and tell them as often as you can how much you care for them. And be sure to be the kind of person to whom they can be proud and happy to be related.
