My teenage daughter and I are both dealing with my divorce from her father and we keep trying to protect each other from our own grief but it's creating this weird distance where we're both pretending to be okay. I can see she's struggling but when I try to talk about it she shuts down, and I think she's doing the same protective thing with me that I'm doing with her.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people are creating isolation through misguided attempts at mutual protection, preventing the very connection that could heal them both.
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