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When honoring a deceased child divides your living family

I built a shrine for my son who died in Afghanistan but my wife says it's keeping us stuck in grief and my other kids avoid the room where I put it.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Mourning practices that comfort one family member can become sources of pain for others.

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