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When grief becomes your most meaningful relationship

My mother died six months ago and everyone keeps telling me I should be 'moving on' but I actually feel closer to her now than when she was alive and forgetting her feels like betraying her.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The pressure to 'recover' from loss conflicts with the profound connection that can emerge through mourning.

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