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When couples grieve differently and feel disconnected

My wife and I are both grieving the loss of our son but we're doing it in completely different ways and I feel like we're becoming strangers to each other instead of finding comfort together.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Profound shared loss can paradoxically isolate people when their coping mechanisms don't align.

Ideas that help explain it
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