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How to grieve someone who is still alive

My adult son hasn't spoken to me in three years and I don't even know why, and I keep hoping he'll call but also trying to accept that he might never.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The suspension between hope and acceptance when love is met with silence creates a liminal grief that resists resolution.

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