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When your adult child won't let you comfort them through loss

My daughter had a miscarriage last month and will not let me help her grieve and I feel useless watching her suffer alone.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The deepest helplessness comes when our instinct to heal meets the wall of another's need to process pain privately.

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