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[quote=Anonymous]They are a nice couple and good parents.  I love their child and do my very best every day to teach and take good care of him.  I would say that 95% of the conversations I have with my employers are about the child or plans for the child, maybe 4% about their lives and about 1% about my personal life.

The thing is that I've had a tragedy in my life and lost someone very close to me very unexpectedly.  I'm not working this long four day weekend and have been able to fly to be with his friends and family at his funeral in California (where I am now).  I will be back to work Monday morning so they will not know that anything has happened.  I don't want to tell them about my loss even though I have mentioned my lost friend in passing quite a few times.  I don't want to and I won't -- at least not for a very long time.

I remember the post a few weeks back about the MB who found out her nanny's mother had died months earlier and she never said a word about it.  I thought the nanny was odd when I read it but now I understand why she never mentioned it to her employers.  It is a strange closeness we share with out employers -- we share a love for their child and we work in their home.  That is a strong connection.  A very strong connection.  But it is generally different and separate from our personal life.  I do not want to bridge that divide with this very painful and personal information that they do not need to know.

I also am looking forward to being happy and forgetting about my loss when I am with my charge.  I'm so exhausted from crying already.  [/quote]

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