My wife and I are empty nesters and we thought we'd be excited about this phase but instead we're both grieving and neither of us knows how to do that together. We keep trying to cheer each other up or plan activities but what we really need is to just sit with this loss and we don't know how to give each other permission for that.
More people experience this than they realize.
The impulse to rescue each other from necessary grief prevents the deeper intimacy that comes from witnessing each other's authentic sorrow.
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