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When couples grieve differently and struggle to support each other

My wife and I are both grieving the loss of her father and we keep trying to support each other but our grief looks so different that sometimes I feel like I'm making it worse for her and I don't think she understands what I need either.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Two people are discovering that shared loss doesn't automatically create shared understanding of how to heal together.

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