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When Accepting Your Child's Identity Involves Unexpected Grief

My teenager came out to me six months ago and I said all the right things but I still feel grief about the life I imagined for them and I hate myself for it.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Love and acceptance can coexist with mourning imagined futures, creating internal conflict about what constitutes true support.

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