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When you feel relief after a difficult parent dies

My dad has been dead for six months and I feel guilty that I am not sadder because we had a complicated relationship and part of me feels relieved.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Grief becomes complicated when death resolves as much as it destroys.

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