My mom and I are both trying to process my dad's death but we grieve so differently that every conversation about him either ends in silence or conflict. She wants to talk about memories and I need to talk about anger and neither of us knows how to hold space for what the other person needs.
More people experience this than they realize.
Grief shared between people with different emotional languages can create isolation precisely when connection is most needed.
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