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Scenario

When family members have different needs around grief and remembrance

My adult children want to plan a big family reunion to celebrate what would have been my late husband's 70th birthday, but I'm not sure I can handle it emotionally and they seem to need this more than I do, and I don't want to disappoint them but I also can't pretend to be ready for something I'm not.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A family is discovering that honoring the dead can require the living to betray their own emotional truth.

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Rabia
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Worth thinking about

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