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When other children trigger grief and resentment

I see children everywhere who are the age my son would be now and sometimes I hate them for being alive when he is not, and then I hate myself for feeling that way.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The parent's love has nowhere to go, creating painful confrontations with the ordinary happiness they have been denied.

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