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How guilt complicates the grieving process

I keep having dreams where my dead husband is angry at me for being happy during the day and I wake up feeling guilty for any moment of lightness

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The fear of betraying the dead by continuing to live creates an impossible prison of perpetual mourning.

Ideas that help explain it
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