:-) You are so right about that.
Right after my mom passed away, a dear friend of mine, who lost her mother a couple years earlier, told me that as long as a person's mother is alive there is still a little bit of "child" in them - no matter how old they are. When she passes away, you not only lose your mother, but that child in you dies too. That impressed me, because it is so true and I'd never thought of it that way before. There is no bond like the bond between mother and child.