It's going to take quite a lot of work to prevent myself from telling people off for telling people they're grieving wrong.
Don't tell someone you know how they feel about the death of their person, whoever that person was to them. You don't know. Your experiences differ.
More than anything - and this goes for most situations - people need us to listen. Listen only. Without judgement, advice, personal history or opinions. Unless specifically asked for any of those. Apparently this is hard for a lot of people to do; it is what most are missing.
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