What have been your biggest struggles and how did you cope?

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No judgment. We all have a yearning to know we're not alone in our tribulations, and we crave an outlet to share our stories. So share your story. I'll start. I recently lost my mother, so for the tally that's both parents, a son, two sisters, all of my grandparents, aunts and uncles dead. Maybe you'll disagree but it seems to me that grief becomes exponentially worse the more you lose. So I tried something. I wrote a letter to each and every one of the people I have lost. I keep them in a special box, and when the grief strikes (which it does even years later) I find a quiet space and read the letter. I made it a point to include everything I could think of from what I loved to what irritated me about them. These letters have been a blessing, that I can refer to anytime I want to just remember.