My mom and I have always been close but since my dad died last year, she's been calling me multiple times a day and I'm starting to feel suffocated by her grief while also feeling terrible for resenting her need for connection. We're both drowning but in different ways and I don't know how to help either of us.
More people experience this than they realize.
A shared loss is being processed in incompatible ways, creating additional loss in the relationship between two people who most need each other's support.
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