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When family members struggle to communicate about grief

My dad and I have never talked about emotions but he's been calling more since my mom died six months ago, and I want to be there for him but neither of us knows how to have the conversations we actually need to have. We keep talking around the grief instead of through it.

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The absence of one beloved person has revealed the absence of emotional language between two others.

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