Caretaking and the Grief of Gradual Loss
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7 min readSep 6, 2020
A few months after I’d lost my first husband, Lawrence, a mentor of mine asked me, “How did you grieve?” It was a good question. After all, I’d returned to my 7-to-5 job relatively quickly, I was still supporting a teenager through virtual schooling (with the help of his grandfather), and I was running a business. When did I have my “crushing time?”
