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When grief makes ancestral obligations feel impossible

My wife died in childbirth and my mother-in-law wants me to raise our daughter to honor her mother's memory but I can barely function and talking about my wife makes everything worse.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Acute loss can make the work of honoring the dead feel like reopening wounds that won't heal.

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