Psychology says adult children don’t grieve their aging parents all at once — they grieve them in a thousand tiny deaths, like the first time your mother forgets she told you the same story twice, or the afternoon you notice your father’s hands shaking when he signs his name
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We talk about grief as though it only arrives after a death. The funeral, the casseroles, the sympathy cards, the slow rebuilding. But I wonder if we have it backwards. Some of the heaviest grieving I have ever done has been for people who are still very much alive — specifically, for my parents, who are still calling me every Sunday and still asking about my job and still, on most days, very much themselves.
Psychologists have a name for this. They call it “anticipatory grief,” and
Psychologists have a name for this. They call it “anticipatory grief,” and
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