There’s a complicated dance that happens between grieving people and their support teams: most people want to be supportive, but they don’t want to intrude. Or they’re terrified of making things worse, so they say nothing. They pull away rather than risk an imperfect connection. In an article for The Guardian, writer Giles Fraser calls this “a double loneliness”—on top of the loss of someone they love, the griever loses the connection and alliance of the people around them.2 For fear of making things worse, people disappear and go silent just when we need them most. I used to tell my friends
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