Hope Edelman

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545 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 16 Jul

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We still needed our mom so much.

I thought I was so old.

So a real wake-up call for me was when my daughters turned 17.

I have two daughters who are now in their 20s.

And I looked at them and I thought, wow, I thought I was so old and mature and I could handle this because the messages around me were...

you need to get past it, you need to move on, you need to let go.

And so I tried to do all those things.

And I thought that I'd achieved them, but life later showed me that no, this is a grief we carry with us forever.

Not at all.

No.

In fact, I work with a lot of women who've lost mothers who died in their 70s and 80s.

And it's just a different kind of hard.

We don't compare.

There's no better.

There's no worse.

There's no easier.

There's no harder.

Losing a mom when you're six is devastating for the rest of your childhood.

Having her in your life for 65 years and then her suddenly not being there is a very different kind of difficult.

Absolutely, absolutely.

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