My ex-wife and I co-parent our two kids and we've both moved on in some ways but there's this unspoken grief between us about what we lost as a family unit that comes up during transitions and school events. We're functional but we've never actually acknowledged together that we're both mourning the same thing and I think our kids feel it too.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people are navigating the complex mourning of a shared life while still needing to collaborate in its aftermath.
“Where Are You with Grief for lost relationships — ambiguous loss of divorce?”
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