[Creggle]

Originally Posted by kirklancaster

My mum worked two jobs concurrently for most of her life, sometimes three, and had more than her fair share of worry, stress, and grief - relative poverty, an alcoholic partner, losing one child at 4 to illness and another child at 12 in a fatal road accident, yet she did not have a wrinkle on her when she died at 82 years old, was always positive and philosophical, and never 'whinged', and yet mum wasn't unique for there are millions of other 'ordinary' mums and Grand mums just like her.

That's rough as hell dude your mother sounds like she was a more valuable/respectable person than any pampered royal.