My partner and I have both lost parents but mine died suddenly in an accident while his went through a long illness, and when we try to comfort each other we keep missing the mark because our grief feels so fundamentally different. He talks about closure and final conversations and I feel like I'm speaking a different language.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people who love each other are discovering that the shape of their grief creates a chasm between them, each carrying loss the other cannot fully comprehend.
“Where Are You with Sudden loss vs. expected loss?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.