consciousdebris
To shoulder so much emotion in a time of grave ailment in order to preserve a small semblance of normalcy is quite a feat. One to be revered. For those you have not lost you will find out some day what that kind of strength is. To shoulder.
Taboo. The way that our relationship seems to onlookers. By which I mean to say, their intellectual selves succumb to their emotional selves for lack of a pragmatic understanding of psychology.