So glad you checked in!! I have been away for a bit, too.
I am so very sorry to hear about the loss of your mother. And worse, to witness how the vultures descend on the estate. I went through that very same thing. How shocked I was to find my uncle in the house with his daughters picking through the drawers not a day after the funeral. Seriously made me sick to my stomach. Plowing though was the only way through.
Kinda like this MLC stuff, really.
I was also glad to read that your H was at least there for you. The disappearance of my x-SO was really hard to take at a time when really, I could have used another friend. Just that, a friend. Instead, he bolted. The "mental habit" is really hard to break. Even after all this time when something happens, I think first of xSO.
