How can I heal my marriage after losing a child?
Losing a child affects relationships dramatically. At times it may make them stronger, but at times it may also devastate them. It's a time to realize you do need support and that you need help getting through this. People are on different paths when it comes to grief. Eventually in a couples' life there will be the issue of having sex again. All of those things become different factors and we're in very different places when we feel sexual again, and when we feel it's okay to have happiness in the relationship. We also may try to get back to the relationship we had either before the child or with the child. You're never going to get back to that again. You're going to have to create a new relationship with each other that now includes this loss. But families can make it, they can do it, as hard as it is.