My mum passed away and we were on bad terms

I was  very close to my mum but we had a disagreement 2 years ago and left on bad terms and didn’t speak to each other.  Unfortunately she was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer in December 2018 and passed away 3 weeks later. However I didn’t know this until 6 weeks later when my step father phoned me to tell me and told me I should feel ashamed of myself. 

I feel awful that I never made up with my mum and feel overwhelmed with grief and guilt and don’t know how I’m going to get over this. I loved my mum dearly even though we had a disagreement, it didn’t mean i stopped loving her. I wish I had contacted her sooner and told her how much I love her. 

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  • The thing is you never know when these things will happen don't blame yourself my dad died and although I never told him I love him even when he was dying we both know we loved each other just our personalities rather the same meant we never did we just didn't like saying it and I don't say it a lot now it's just my personality dosent mean I don't love people in my life if I'm not like that in general I can't force it when someone is dying because I get embarrassed saying it my dad would probably say something stupid like course we do don't be soppy on me so don't feel bad and also don't feel upset about having a row lots of us have regrets I regret lots of things I've done like seeing my dads walking a few meters away and not running up to him to see how he was cause I thought I wouldn't catch him up after shouting and him not hearing I regret not checking on him often but I know it's a part of life I will learn from like when my mum used to say please come to see me and I used to think it's too far can't be bothered I probably won't do that again or maybe not as often cause parents get older and need support my dad suffered in silence he tried to tell us but no one understood learn from whatever mistake and move on to make you a better person  it's awful you heard after your mum passing the shame should be on whoever waited 6?week to tell you 

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  • The thing is you never know when these things will happen don't blame yourself my dad died and although I never told him I love him even when he was dying we both know we loved each other just our personalities rather the same meant we never did we just didn't like saying it and I don't say it a lot now it's just my personality dosent mean I don't love people in my life if I'm not like that in general I can't force it when someone is dying because I get embarrassed saying it my dad would probably say something stupid like course we do don't be soppy on me so don't feel bad and also don't feel upset about having a row lots of us have regrets I regret lots of things I've done like seeing my dads walking a few meters away and not running up to him to see how he was cause I thought I wouldn't catch him up after shouting and him not hearing I regret not checking on him often but I know it's a part of life I will learn from like when my mum used to say please come to see me and I used to think it's too far can't be bothered I probably won't do that again or maybe not as often cause parents get older and need support my dad suffered in silence he tried to tell us but no one understood learn from whatever mistake and move on to make you a better person  it's awful you heard after your mum passing the shame should be on whoever waited 6?week to tell you 

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