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When grief recovery feels like betrayal of the dead

Everyone keeps telling me I should be 'moving forward' after my husband's death but I feel like moving forward means leaving him behind and I cannot do that.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The pressure to heal conflicts with the loyalty that grief represents.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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

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