The woman’s mom died and the grief was immense.
A woman, 36, named Helen, wrote us a letter and told us a story that happened in her family and which has now become a thing that is ruining her own life.
Helen started her letter, saying that her mother passed recently from cancer and this was the biggest grief of Helen’s life, which she’s still recovering from. The woman wrote, «My mom died of cancer one month ago. I had been taking care of her during the past two years, and I was watching her slowly declining, day by day, without being able to do anything for her. She was diagnosed too late, and neither of the chemo therapies she went through, helped her. I was prepared for the fact that mom would pass soon, but when it happened, my grief was so overwhelming that I couldn’t even cry my pain out, I was just numb.»
Helen revealed that she had a special kind of relationship with her late mom. The woman wrote, «My mom loved me more than anything. She would spoil me, she would be my best friend, my wisest mentor, my most loving person in the universe. I paid her with a doubled love in return, we were very close.»
Surprisingly, Helen’s relationship with her brother wasn’t of the same kind as with her mom. The woman revealed, «My older brother, Sam, is the person whom I have never been able to fully understand. He has always been very distant with me, since my childhood, and I didn’t see any obvious reason for it. No, he wasn’t aggressive to me and he never offended me. He was just behaving like I was having some disease that would spread on him if he contacted with me, this has always been so weird, provided our mom loved us both equally, and there wasn’t any discrimination in our family.»
A woman, 36, named Helen, wrote us a letter and told us a story that happened in her family and which has now become a thing that is ruining her own life.
Helen started her letter, saying that her mother passed recently from cancer and this was the biggest grief of Helen’s life, which she’s still recovering from. The woman wrote, «My mom died of cancer one month ago. I had been taking care of her during the past two years, and I was watching her slowly declining, day by day, without being able to do anything for her. She was diagnosed too late, and neither of the chemo therapies she went through, helped her. I was prepared for the fact that mom would pass soon, but when it happened, my grief was so overwhelming that I couldn’t even cry my pain out, I was just numb.»
Helen revealed that she had a special kind of relationship with her late mom. The woman wrote, «My mom loved me more than anything. She would spoil me, she would be my best friend, my wisest mentor, my most loving person in the universe. I paid her with a doubled love in return, we were very close.»
Surprisingly, Helen’s relationship with her brother wasn’t of the same kind as with her mom. The woman revealed, «My older brother, Sam, is the person whom I have never been able to fully understand. He has always been very distant with me, since my childhood, and I didn’t see any obvious reason for it. No, he wasn’t aggressive to me and he never offended me. He was just behaving like I was having some disease that would spread on him if he contacted with me, this has always been so weird, provided our mom loved us both equally, and there wasn’t any discrimination in our family.»
Things started to get wrong right after the mother’s funeral.
Helen goes on with her story, saying, that after her mom’s funeral, her brother approached her and said they needed to talk. Helen revealed, «Sam insisted that I don’t touch mom’s thing by any means, and he said that he would sort them, and then he’d take the things he’d want to keep and let me choose the ones I would want to keep, too. I was so much overwhelmed by my grief that I agreed, but in heart of hearts, I knew this was so wrong from Sam’s side to not allow me to touch mom’s things.»
But then, Sam’s wife started giving birth, it was an out-of-schedule delivery and Sam rushed to his family to support his wife. So, Helen decided to use the opportunity and started to sort mom’s things alone.
Helen said, «I thought that it would be just unfair if someone, even if it’s my brother, would prohibit me to approach the belongings of my dearest person on Earth. I decided to ignore Sam’s conditions and started looking through mom’s things alone. I thought that I would keep only a few of them, and I was sure that Sam wouldn’t want them, as they had no special meaning for him. So, I thought everything was fair enough. And now I wish I actually listened to Sam and never approached mom’s stuff, because what I found in the process is now taking a toll on my life.»
The woman found her mom’s diary and read it, despite being asked not to.
Helen goes on with her story, saying, «I was looking through my late mom’s belongings, when I suddenly came across a very old, half-torn book. It turned out to be mom’s personal diary, and she had been actively writing entries in it only for 2 years, which was even before I was born.»
Helen revealed that the title page contained some handwritten text, in which her mom asked anyone who’d find this diary to keep away from it and to respect her privacy. Despite this warning, Helen overcame her remorse and started reading it.
The woman said, «I knew I was doing a very disrespectful thing while ignoring mom’s prohibition to read the content of this book. But I was grieving, I needed a part of her in my life so badly, and I felt she would forgive me for reading through her diary.»
Helen added, «While reading it, I finally understood why my brother had been behaving in such a weird way during all my conscious life. The fact is that he turned out to be not my brother, but my…Father!»
