Dear Queenie,
My brother lives on another island and did not visit our parents here for years. But when our mother died he came for the funeral and carried on about how sad he was and how much he was going to miss her.
Queenie, if he missed her so much, why didn’t he ever come to see her when she was still alive? She would have loved to see him! And why bother to come for the funeral?—In mourning
Dear Mourning,
You could ask him that question, but of course it is too late to do your mother any good.
Is it possible that there was some sort of estrangement that kept him away?
