"My dad admitted in family grief counseling with me after my mom died that his love for me (and likely subsequently my sister as well) was conditional. The therapist we were seeing, and I both initially thought he misspoke when he said it. The therapist then clarified, 'Do you mean unconditional?' My dad responded no and doubled down on how he felt with some hypothetical examples. It just felt like the ultimate betrayal and completely contradictory to how we were raised and what we were told by our mom."
"My daughter was 16 when she had her son. A year after the baby was born, I found out who the father was at my brother's funeral. My daughter was quite close with her uncle, and I assumed she'd be devastated at his funeral. I couldn't have been more wrong. She was smiling and giggling throughout the whole thing. I just brushed it off as a shock, as the death was extremely unexpected."
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