My husband and I have been trying to get pregnant for three years and the process has made us into different people - more careful, more desperate, more afraid to hope. We used to talk about everything but now we're both protecting each other from our own grief and it's making us strangers.
More people experience this than they realize.
Shared loss has created parallel grieving processes that are pulling two people apart instead of bringing them together.
“Where Are You with Historical grief — intergenerational mourning?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.