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When estranged family members return after a loss

My grandmother raised me and she died last year and my biological mother wants a relationship now and I do not know what I owe her.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Death can prompt family members to seek connection they previously avoided, creating complicated obligations for those who managed without them.

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