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When friends grieve differently and comfort becomes complicated

My best friend and I both lost our parents this year and we keep trying to comfort each other but we're grieving completely differently and I think we're both failing each other without knowing how to say it.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people are discovering that shared loss doesn't automatically create shared understanding, and their different ways of processing grief are creating distance exactly when they need connection most.

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