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How to cope when tough love ends in death

My son overdosed and died while we weren't speaking because I refused to enable his addiction anymore, and everyone blames me.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The cruelest irony is when love expressed through boundaries becomes the context for permanent loss.

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“Where Are You with Grief and relief — complex feelings after difficult deaths?”

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