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Why guilt accompanies joy in early grief

I keep comparing my grief to everyone else's in group and feeling like I'm not sad enough because I have moments of genuine happiness.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The permission to continue living fully feels like betrayal of the dead, as if suffering were the only acceptable form of love.

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