In life we grieve. We grieve death, divorce, friends, jobs, and losses of every kind both large and small.  Where people are involved, the complicated feelings attached to loss can cause us to lose all balance and send us careening into an emotional turmoil while we seek to regain our footing and make sense of the loss.  I have always found it harder to grieve the living than the dead – and I have grieved some dead.  The living just keep showing up to turn your world upside down again and again.

This is especially true when you are the parent of an addict…