The correct name for Mothers Day in the UK is Mothering Sunday.

Mothering Sunday is always the fourth Sunday of Lent however as the dates vary as to when Easter and Lent fall the actual Sunday chosen to celebrate it may vary. 

It is more often referred to as "Mother's Day" and it origin is distinctly different to Mothers Day in America although the sentiments are similar.

In Victorian times, it was a day when children, mainly daughters, who had gone to work as domestic servants were given a day off to visit their mother and family.

Today it is a day when children give presents, flowers, and cards

What happened to all the love? Where did it go? Was I pouring all that emotion into an empty vessel all those years? Year after year of loving only you, caring only for you, yet you didn't want it? Didn't feel it?  Ever? That's what you said.

What happened to the secret signs I mistook for love? The looks and gazes, the held hands, the smiles, the hugs and the times just being near seemed like heaven. When you walked into the room, every time without fail, the room was a shade brighter, a touch lighter, a touch sunnier, a touch funnier.

When did the light go out? Was it flickering and I didn't

Well we have a solicitors appointment tomorrow to draw up a separation agreement which brings us one step closer to divorcing in 12 months time.

This is what she wants yet I am despair she is making a mistake and does not realise the full intencity of what is happening.  We went shopping last night just the 2 off us but I hated it, so when we came home I said to her we can not go on doing this "going about our every day life as if nothing is happening" as it hurts me immensly. As I keep thinking there may be hope, but why do i want that as I could not trust her, she is not going to change,