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Tackling impossible questions

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Sep 13, 2025
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Ada, deep in thought, at the age of two

If parenting after suicide is exhausting, parenting through children’s questions is absolutely devastating.

With Ada still so young, she needed little explanation at first. Love and cuddles were enough.

Evie, though, was different. Even young, she grasped what suicide meant. And she asked the question I dreaded: ‘Ho…

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