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Teresa Reiniger | I Felt Relieved When They Died. Does That Make Me a Terrible Person?
Episode 16 ~ What happens when someone you love dies and, somewhere inside the heartbreak, you also feel relief?
It is one of those grief experiences people rarely say out loud. Relief that someone is no longer suffering. Relief that years of caregiving have ended. Relief that the hospital visits, uncertainty, fear, impossible decisions, or painful relationship dynamics are finally over. And then, almost immediately, guilt may follow.
In this solo episode of Female Voices: Life & Loss, Teresa Reiniger opens a compassionate conversation about why grief does not always arrive as one…
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