Some names don't require math. This one does. A month of calculating whether one word is safe. The prohibition isn't on grief. It's on expressing it. This episode documents the isolation between human response and required silence.

This is exhausting. You're not imagining it.

Content Notice:
The exhaustion documented here is real. To protect all involved, details have been fictionalized, events composited, and circumstances altered beyond recognition. Some dialogue has been reconstructed.
This is not memoir. This is not confession. This is pattern recognition.
This is commentary on systemic patterns, not accounts of specific individuals or employers.
Any resemblance to your specific husband, boss, or situation means the pattern is working exactly as designed.
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