Raising my twelve-year-old son Leo alone after the death of his father three years ago has been one of the most emotionally complex experiences of my life. In the early months, grief seemed to settle over our home like a permanent silence.
Leo, once curious and talkative, gradually became withdrawn, answering questions with short phrases and spending long hours alone in his room. I often worried that I was watching him disappear into himself, unsure how to reach a child who no longer expressed what he felt.
Every attempt to comfort him seemed to fall short of where the pain actually lived. Everything began to change when Leo came home one afternoon visibly upset about…
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