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How To Heal Your Marriage After Losing A Child

Name: How To Heal Your Marriage After Losing A Child
Uploaded: 2011-04-03T00:51:11+00:00
Duration: 3 s
Channel: David Kessler
Description: A brief excerpt from a YouTube video by David Kessler addressing how couples can heal their marriage after the loss of a child. Kessler notes that…

3 Apr 2011 · 0 min

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A brief excerpt from a YouTube video by David Kessler addressing how couples can heal their marriage after the loss of a child. Kessler notes that partners often grieve on different paths, that intimacy and happiness may feel altered, and that couples cannot return to their prior relationship but must create a new shared relationship that includes the loss. He emphasizes the need for support and that families can survive this change despite difficulty.

How can I heal my marriage after losing a child?
Losing a child affects relationships dramatically. At times it may make them stronger, but at times it may also devastate them. It's a time to realize you do need support. You need help getting through this.
People are on different paths when it comes to grief at times. Eventually in a couple's life, there will be the issue of having sex again. All those things become different factors. We're in very different places. When we feel sexual again, when we feel like it's okay to have happiness in the relationship, we also may try to get back to that relationship we had either before the child or with a child. You're never going to get back to that again. You're going to have to create a new relationship with each other that now includes this loss. But families can make it, and they can do it as hard as it is.