Grief changes your friendships. For many, many people, it ends them. We’ll talk more about this in part 3, but for now, I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention how common, and how painful, this aspect of grief can be. Your loss intersects with often hidden or especially painful heartbreak in the people around you. Your pain bumps up against their pain. We may not call it that directly, but that’s often what’s happening when people behave poorly or fail to understand the immensity of your loss. And even when your friends want to support you, we don’t often have the skills—no matter how skilled we
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