My mom is dying and my family keeps trying to make everything normal and cheerful when she's around, but I think she knows and I think she wants to talk about it. We're all protecting each other from conversations that maybe we all actually need to have.
More people experience this than they realize.
A group of people who love each other are choosing a familiar kind of suffering over an unknown kind of honesty.
“Where Are You with Long-term partnership — sustaining love over time?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.