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When Your Moral Support Conflicts with Your Emotional Reality

My teenage son came out to me last week and I said all the right supportive things, but honestly I am grieving the future I imagined for him.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Love sometimes requires acting from our values while processing emotions that seem to contradict those values.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Moral psychology — how we make ethical decisions?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.