the kind of grief nobody warns you about

Hi Reader, I’m still hearing from so many of you after I shared the story of losing my mom when I was young. It’s been 36 years, and I’ve learned that grief doesn’t simply disappear with time. It changes. It shows up in different ways, at different stages of your life, and sometimes in places you don’t expect. Two of my friends are grieving right now - one is losing her father, the other is coming out of a divorce that completely reshaped her life. Watching them, I realized how much of my own...