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Navigating Pregnancy Loss as a Couple: When Grief Looks Different for Each Parent
When a couple experiences a pregnancy loss, each partner may experience and express their grief in profoundly different ways. Understanding how grief can manifest differently for each parent, and learning to navigate these differences together, can be crucial for both individual healing and relationship strength during this difficult time.
Disenfranchised Grief and Pregnancy Loss: Understanding Your Valid and Natural Response
The loss of a pregnancy—whether through miscarriage, stillbirth, or other circumstances—brings profound grief that can feel overwhelming and isolating. Understanding the concept of disenfranchised grief can help explain why this loss may feel particularly challenging to navigate in our society.
The Reality of Pet Loss Grief
The grief you feel when your animal companion dies is real, profound, and deserving of recognition—even if the world around you doesn't always understand.
When Your Grief Doesn't "Count": Understanding Disenfranchised Grief
Disenfranchised grief occurs when society doesn't acknowledge your right to grieve a particular loss. Your pain is real, your sense of loss profound, but the world around you may minimize it, ignore it, or expect you to "get over it" quickly.
What Really Matters at the End of Life
BJ Miller is a physician whose passion for hospice and palliative care stems from his own near-death experience.