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When age creates barriers in grief communities

I'm the only person under forty in my grief support group and their advice about losing spouses doesn't help when everyone thinks I'm too young to understand real loss.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Mourning becomes colonized by assumptions about whose pain counts and whose timeline matters, leaving young grievers without mirrors for their experience.

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“Where Are You with Grief groups and communities?”

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