Your loss deserves to be acknowledged, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith. If your family are not providing you with this, find ways to mark it without them
My family have all but ignored the anniversary of my partner’s death. Am I wrong to feel so hurt?. My partner, who I was with for 21 years, died suddenly 10 years ago. My family have all but ignored the anniversary of my partner’s death since it happened. My father died the year after my partner and I always send my mother a card or flowers on their anniversary, and ring to check in on his death day and birthday.
I feel despair about the state of the world. How can I find the courage to not abandon hope? | Leading questions But your family shows facility with thoughtfulness and grief. You feel they’re more assiduous and automatic with those rituals when they’re for heterosexual relationships. You could be wrong, in principle, but you’ve had decades of experience navigating sexuality: I doubt your “othering” radar would go off for nothing.
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