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I Didn't Expect Losing My Mom To Affect My Relationship With My MIL

Natalia Lebedinskaia/Getty ImagesThe grief of losing a parent is indescribable. You end up mourning not just the person you lost, but the person you were when they were still alive. In many ways, it feels like a piece of you died with them and you’re forced to create a new life that may look the same as your old life, but feels very, very different. I lost my mom over a year ago, and I still continue to notice how much her absence impacts my daily life. Some changes were easy to predict: holidays, birthdays, Mother’s Day, trips to my parents’ house. But there was one thing to come out of my mo...