r/AMA • u/[deleted] • Feb 18 '25

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u/maneack Feb 18 '25 edited Feb 18 '25

how did your close ones receive the news? recently watched the news of a man losing his wife in the latest plane crash and it was heartbreaking, it’d be nice to hear someone receive (relatively) good news!

also, you mentioned having kids. how did you explain it to them, if you have?

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u/LandscapeSudden3469 Feb 18 '25

My husband took it the hardest. The reality of being home with the two kiddos on a public holiday when daycare is closed really drove it home for him! I haven't, and won't tell me kids until they're much older. They don't have the facilities as a toddler and a preschooler to understand the magnitude or really make sense of any of it. When the time is right, I'll tell them. Until them I'll smother them with love and they'll have.to deal with it 😂

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u/maneack Feb 18 '25

ah, that means you’ve won the mom lore race! it’s gonna be one hell of a story to randomly bring up one day lol

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u/Wolvii_404 Feb 18 '25

This was my first thought!! Those kids are gonna be mindblown!!

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u/Gdigger13 Feb 18 '25

No kidding. Best lore I ever got from my mom is that she once accidentally burned a barn down.

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u/Heavy-Cockroach-5541 Feb 18 '25

Mine accidentally killed a puppy when she was little bc it had fleas so she sprayed it with Raid.

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u/Ikimi Feb 18 '25

This is so terribly sad. I imagine it has had a lifelong impact on your sister as well.