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When family members grieve differently and hurt each other while trying to help

My mom and I are both trying to process our grief over losing dad, but we grieve completely differently and I think we keep accidentally hurting each other when we're just trying to help. She wants to talk about memories constantly and I need more space to feel things quietly, but then she thinks I'm shutting her out.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people are discovering that their natural healing rhythms are incompatible and creating secondary wounds in their most important relationship.

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