grief is a teacher
Sometimes grief is also a teacher. This repeated silence might be showing you that you can’t rely on them to validate your presence — you have to find ways to honor yourself.
It’s not that they’re “bad people,” but that their behavior revealed a limit in the relationship. And your heart is only now starting to integrate that truth.
In short, this part of grief isn’t just missing your family—it’s grieving the realization of how the relationship actually is, not how you hoped it would be. That realization is painful because it forces you to adjust expectations, and grief is the natural process of letting go of what you thought was there.
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