A group set up to help grieving daughters who have lost their mothers is described as a 'lifeline'.
A woman who set up a social support group for motherless daughters after her own mother died said it had helped many other women feel less alone.
Since the group's creation in 2014, it has attracted more than 3,000 members who have described it as a "lifeline" as they unite in their grief. "It is a unique bond, you only get one mother... and when that bond breaks you don't know what to do because there is nobody else," she added.Bridie De Lucia was diagnosed with a progressive brain tumour in 2004, just before her 50th birthday and on the day of Carmella's 17th birthday."It was the worst type of brain tumour that she could have had really and there was just nothing they could do, so it was all very quick," Carmella said.
"People said there should be a place where people can share their experiences, and I thought 'yes, there should'."Two years later, Jo Henwood joined the group after her mother, Hazel, died in August 2016 at the age of 78.She said: "It is so supportive of each other, we are all over the country, the world".
"It is weird but you feel like a bit like an orphan because nobody knows these things of my childhood, it was just me and her," she said.
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