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Scenario

When siblings grieve differently and complicated grief divides the family

My sister and I are both stuck in this endless loop of grief over our mom's death three years ago and we keep triggering each other — she thinks I'm not grieving 'right' because I can't let go of mom's things, and I think she's being cold because she wants to sell the house already. We used to be close but now every conversation about mom turns into a fight about who loved her more or who's handling this better.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people are trapped in competing expressions of prolonged grief, each invalidating the other's process while their shared loss becomes a source of division rather than connection.

Your guide for this
Mira
Mira works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Complicated grief — prolonged grief disorder?”

Peri

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