My wife and I are both widowed and we understand each other's grief in ways no one else can, but we're also competing over whose loss was worse and whose healing looks right, and it's poisoning what could be beautiful.
More people experience this than they realize.
Shared understanding of loss has become a battlefield of comparison rather than a source of mutual compassion.
“Where Are You with The death of a partner?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.