On today’s episode, Michelle and Craig open up about how they’ve managed grieving their beloved mother, Marian Robinson. An IMO listener asks Michelle and Craig for help in navigating painful family dynamics after losing her dad. Michelle and Craig share how their parents helped them manage grief from a very young age, and offer advice to the listener for finding meaning and connection after significant loss. Have a question you want answered? Write to us at imopod.com.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
How did Michelle and Craig cope with their mother's passing?
No, no. But she wasn't going to let her. She was going to smoke cigarettes and drink wine and eat bad food until she... Until she dropped dead.
Until she couldn't.
Yes, yes, to use her term. And folks should know when we say drop dead, that is a... That's her term. That is a comfort term for the Robinsons and the Obamas because that's what my mom always called dying, dropping dead.
Just dropping dead. It's like, okay, mom.
You know, he just dropped dead the other day. It's just like, okay, can we find another way to phrase it?
But I think... You know, what mom did for us when it came to managing grief from as long as I can remember is that she and dad were never afraid to talk about death, right?
Mm-hmm.
Just like every other topic in our household, they parented with an openness, with a philosophy that your kids were smart and capable. And that if you phrase things the right way and did it at the level that they could understand, there really wasn't anything that you couldn't talk to your kids about. about in terms of just broad topics.
I mean, they weren't the kind of we're best friends kind of parents. It was like, no, you're a child, but we can have conversations. Um, and, and we will encourage questions about everything that included death and aging. Um, because we did grow up with a big extended family. We grew up with all four of our grandparents, um,
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