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When family therapy becomes performative after loss

My teenage daughter and I have been doing therapy together after her dad died last year, but lately our sessions feel like we're performing grief for each other instead of actually working through it and I think we're both getting stuck trying to protect the other person from how bad it really is.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Shared protective instincts can create a false intimacy that prevents the very healing they're meant to foster.

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