DEAR DEIDRE: MY mum died suddenly last month. She was 73 and had been battling cancer.
The undertaker says only ten immediate family can come to the funeral.
Dad’s 82 and not well, so my sisters and I have to decide who to invite and it’s causing tension.
I am 48, a divorced mum of three teenagers. Mum loved my children and would have wanted them to be there.
My middle sister has two younger kids and she’s easy about whether they go or not, but she wants her husband there with her.
It’s my eldest sister who is making waves. She is single and insists that Mum’s three sisters and two brothers must go. She says Mum would have wanted them there.
We can’t ask some and not others, but that would mean my kids can’t go and Mum saw lots more of them than her siblings.
DEIDRE SAYS: Your mum wouldn’t have wanted the family rowing over her funeral.
Be the bigger person. Your teenagers will relate better to a live stream of the funeral than your aunts and uncles.
Have a special meal with your kids where they talk about their best moments with your mum.
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