It seems like emotional pain is WAY more taboo than it has to be. Our society isn't sure how to respond to it because it makes them uncomfortable. In turn, it makes the person going through the pain uncomfortable as well. Speaking from that side of things, I can assure you that while I seem consumed by our grief and pain, the last thing any person going through a hard emotional ordeal wants is to make anyone else feel uncomfortable or even have to feel what the outskirts of that pain is like. In fact, I do whatever I can to shield you from it because I don't want to ever have to know someone else went through or is going through the same thing. Yes, I have bad days where you get a glimpse of where I am and what life is like, but for the most part I never show it and you will never see. That place is sacred. Dark and painful, yes, but it's the place where I remember in vivid detail who my daughter was. The emotions are raw and gut-wrenching, bu...
