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Psychiatrists expect people to finish their grieving within about a year. Longer grief thereby becomes “unexpectable” and a symptom. Nothing is inherently “unexpectable,” however, about longer grief. It is only that psychiatrists do not expect it.

"Often father and daughter look down on mother (woman) together. They exchange meaningful glances when she misses
a point. They agree that she is not bright as they are, cannot reason as they do.
This collusion does not save the daughter from the mother’s fate."