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Hit Hard: One Family's Journey of Letting Go of What Was--and Learning to Live Well with What Is

Book by Pat McLeod · 4 quotes · Grief, Loss, Mourning

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“We allowed each other the gift of separate approaches to the same crisis.”

Loss Grief Marriage Relationship Mourning

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“Stress is a fickle glue. Our concern over Zach should have cemented us to each other. Instead, we drew our agony around ourselves like a force field. Inadequate protection at best. Distance-maker at worst. It was as if letting ourselves be vulnerable with each other would have made us brittle. We couldn't afford to crumble.”

Fear Loss Grief Marriage Stress Illness

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“We functioned. We remained committed to each other. But how was it that we felt so disconnected when permanently connected by a shared tragedy?”

Loss Grief Marriage Mourning

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“Ambiguous disappointment often accompanies ambiguous loss. For so long we disappointed each other--drawing close when the other needed space, keeping our distance when the other needed closeness, misreading each other's cues about whether an incident was comedic or catastrophic in the other's opinion, misjudging which of our children needed us most at any given moment.”

Relationships Loss Grief Marriage Mourning

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