Which means either they’ve never been through it, or they’re too mixed-up with the shame and the hurt to talk about it.
Which sucks. Because this is hard enough as it is, without pretending that it isn’t happening.
Disclaimer time:
When someone you love is ill – like, the kind of ill where you don’t expect them to get better – it’s hard. It’s really hard.
And one of the things that’s hard about it is that you start grieving while the person is still with us. Maybe even planning things – running through funeral details in your head.