Grief does not arrive on anniversaries and leave the rest of the year alone. It arrives in aisle seven. Eleven years after losing his daughter Maddie, Chris Coulter writes about what it means to stop being surprised by it.

Parents of struggling teens carry a grief that has no name and no funeral. No diagnosis. No crisis. Just a low-grade fear that follows them through every day. This post names that experience, validates it, and offers a community for parents who are somewhere between noticing and knowing