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When family members find meaning in suffering at different paces

My brother and I are both dealing with chronic illnesses that developed around the same time, and while we initially bonded over trying to find purpose in our limitations, he's found his 'why' through advocacy work and I'm still searching, and now our conversations feel like he's the success story and I'm the failure at meaning-making.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Siblings navigating parallel suffering discover that one person's successful meaning-making can inadvertently shame the other's ongoing search.

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