struggle along

But more of it approaches insult, blind to repeated findings on mixed-sex adolescent bereavement which chart higher rates of suicidality, premature death and employment struggle — along with worse education and health outcomes, earlier and more frequent sexual, drug-related and criminal encounters.

“Each other’s sadness doesn’t make us sad as much as each other’s struggles comfort us to see that we’re not alone. We’re seen. We’re felt. We’re not trying to tell a sad story with a bummer ending. The story has a happy ending. But the struggle along the way should make people feel that their own struggles are real too.”

Still, I felt sick that I'd made my son struggle along behind me with his backpack in the hot sun.

"I started my struggle along with them."

Many of us want to find ways that our voices can flourish together, but we must anticipate that it might take what sounds like struggle along the way.