Try to respect the way others grieve

Just as you have a right to grieve in your own way, so do the others around you. However, their way may be quite different from yours and this can cause all kinds of problems in relationships already straining at the seams following a traumatic loss.

It just goes back to grief being very individual, and respecting the path that someone else is on, even if their thoughts and feelings are very different from your own. They may not cry, for example, whilst you can hardly stop – it doesn’t mean that they don’t care, or that they aren’t grieving.

They are just coping with their loss in their own way.