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When old grief flares up around others' complaints

My father has been dead for six years but I still get furious when people talk about their difficult relationships with their living fathers because at least they have the chance to work it out.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Unresolved mourning crystallizes into resentment toward those who possess what we can never have again.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Grief and anger — the rage underneath?”

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