unfortunately My partner had a situation with family I.E her step dad who stopped her seeing her mam who had cancer we called often on the phone to her but then he changed phone number and we could not contact her , 3 weeks after this I got to work one Monday night an been there about 15 minutes when she who must be obeyed rang to say that she had just been told her mam had passed away. Ok we where expecting it so expecting to need to book some time off work however it cam e as a shock that her mother had passed away 2 weeks earlier and that the funeral was at 9am Tuesday morning. to say my boss was shocked when I said I was going home and he was shocked why we had not been informed before this was a understatement.
To this day if we my other half and her brother both swear if they ever cross his path he will be looking like a panda