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How to honor widowhood choices within Ubuntu expectations

My community expects me to remarry after my husband's death but I want to focus on raising my children alone, and people say I am being selfish.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Personal agency in grief is being overruled by community assumptions about what serves the greater good.

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