My brother and I are three years into grieving our mom and we've developed completely different relationships to her memory — he wants to preserve everything exactly as it was and I need to let some things go to move forward. We can't talk about it without him feeling like I'm betraying her and me feeling like he's keeping us both stuck.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people who share the same loss are discovering that their different ways of carrying grief forward are creating distance between them.
“Where Are You with Living with loss long-term?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.