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When couples grieve differently and support feels like conflict

My wife and I both went through traumatic losses last year and we keep trying to be there for each other but we're grieving so differently that sometimes our attempts to help feel like criticism or dismissal and I don't know how to bridge that gap without losing ourselves in the process.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Two people in shared pain are discovering that love alone doesn't automatically create the capacity to hold each other's different ways of processing trauma.

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