Since our daughter died, my wife and I have realized that we spent so much energy loving her that we forgot how to love each other as anything other than her parents, and now we're trying to find our way back to being lovers while everything in us wants to preserve the family we were.
More people experience this than they realize.
Child loss can reveal how completely parental love reorganized a partnership, leaving couples to rebuild romantic connection without abandoning their identity as parents to the deceased.
“Where Are You with What we learn from grief about love?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.