My partners mother passed away nearly three years ago and while he loved her deeply she also cut him off from the rest of the world when he was younger, he wasn’t allowed to go outside or have a childhood bc she was scared of him getting hurt. She had a lot of unimaginable trauma herself and without meaning too put him through a lot. His childhood consisted with her neglecting him and never showing up for him and yelling at him some very nasty things that a child should never hear. He hasn’t grieved her whatsoever and has completely shut his emotions off and isn’t able to feel anything since (he also had a abusive relationship right after she passed and the year before she passed he’d spent nearly all of it crying and depressed and has a lot of guilt for “ruining” the last year of her life).
I’m looking for a book that may help, either someone else’s story or a book on how to process it all. He has a lot of anger towards her but also so much guilt and i don’t want him to feel alone
by No_Detective5831