My partner and I both watched our friend die slowly from cancer last year, and now we're both terrified of losing each other but we're handling it completely differently — I want to talk about mortality constantly and plan for every possible future, while they've gone silent and won't even discuss making wills together.
More people experience this than they realize.
Death has entered your shared awareness but you're each running toward or away from that reality at different speeds.
“Where Are You with The gift of mortality — what loss teaches about being alive?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.