My wife and I both lost parents this year and we keep trying to comfort each other with the same empty phrases that other people use on us. We know they don't help when others say them to us, but somehow we fall back on them with each other and it's creating this weird distance between us.
More people experience this than they realize.
Even those who intimately know the poverty of conventional comfort can find themselves offering the very words that have failed them.
“Where Are You with What not to say to a grieving person?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.