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When healing a relationship reopens old wounds

My ex-wife and I are finally getting along as co-parents but it's making me grieve our marriage all over again because this is who we could have been.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Growth sometimes reveals not just possibility but the precise shape of what was lost.

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