My partner and I lost our son two years ago and we've been grieving completely differently — I need to talk about him constantly and she needs silence to process, and lately it feels like we're grieving in separate universes even though we're the only two people who knew him the way we did.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people who shared the deepest bond with what was lost find themselves isolated by the very differences in how they process that loss.
“Where Are You with Grief as psychological process?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.