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Why complicated relationships create complicated grief

Everyone expects me to be devastated about my mother's death but we had a complicated relationship and I mostly just feel confused.

Mira
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Mixed love creates mixed mourning that resists neat emotional categories.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Death of a loved one — the immediate experience?”

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