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Why some deaths bring only numbness instead of tears

My uncle who molested me as a child died last week and I feel guilty for feeling nothing, like maybe something is wrong with me for not grieving.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The absence of expected grief can feel like a moral failure, even when the relationship was fundamentally harmful.

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