I loved my Mum, she died when I was 25 when my son was 2 years old so has missed seeing him grow up. She was never very demonstrative with affection but I knew she loved me. She was a good woman who adopted me, we always had foster children staying as well. I have 2 older sisters & a foster brother. I don't see a lot of them now but there has never been any nastiness beween us, natural/adopted/foster children, we were all brought up together with our Mum, she did well.