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Scenario

When grief creates distance between parent and child

My teenage daughter and I are both grieving my husband's death but we keep hurting each other when we try to talk about it — she shuts down when I get emotional and I get angry when she seems fine, and we're stuck in this cycle where we can't even mention him anymore.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Shared loss is creating competing grief responses that prevent connection rather than fostering it.

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Patan
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