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When people want you to sanitize your grief

My grief feels stuck because everyone tells me to focus on good memories but our relationship was complicated and some of my memories are painful.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Social pressure to idealize the dead can prevent authentic mourning.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Grief as psychological process?”

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