Men need to learn from my Pat’s loss
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“There’s not a day that I don’t think about him. I’m absolutely in love with him.”
But as the 30-year-old prepares for Henry’s first birthday, Ms Astill said she was determined to help her son and other men learn from Pat’s mistakes.
“I look at (Henry) every day and he is morphing into his dad in looks and his body language,” she said. “If he is ever in a situation where he feels unable to talk, I don’t want him to ever feel like that.
“You have to be tough, you can’t cry – that (way of thinking) just needs to go out the door. I don’t want Henry to ever be like that. I want him to be 100 per cent open.”
Ms Astill met her late partner while working for a anxiety, now I post-traumatic mining company at Roma five years ago. She said Pat battled depression and was concerned about money.
Ms Astill believed Pat could have got through if he NICOLE ASTILL talked about his problems.
But according to Ms Astill, Mr Foresi was the blokiest bloke and had a perception of how men should behave under pressure.
Despite the fact that she is still coming to terms with her partner’s loss, Ms Astill said she would return to work as a client facilitator at Care Connect next month after a year’s maternity leave.
While June 24, 2016 will remain both the best and worst day in her young life, Ms Astill said she would not to let the date interfere with the celebration of Henry’s birthday.
“I don’t want Henry’s birthday every year to be a bad memory,” she said.
“I’m pretty much making Pat’s anniversary the 30th of May.
“I talk about Pat and have photos of Pat all around.
“There are a couple of particular photos that Henry will go up to and go ‘dad dad dad’.
“When he’s looking at a photo of Pat he gets mesmerised almost.”