Adaptive Grieving Style Analysis

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Adaptive Grieving Style After reading and reviewing the Adaptive Grieving Styles document by Martin and Dakota, I feel I prefer the Blended Style. I feel I am pretty consistent in my grieving style and it tends to be a mixture of both Intuitive and Instrumental grieving. My style depends a lot on the relationship I had with the deceased, how long it has been, and the situation in how they passed. I remember grieving the most with my brother, but much of my grieving was done prior to his actual death. I feel I grieved the same with my aunt when she died. I knew both of them was not going to be with us much longer and tried to spend as much time as possible with them during their past days here on earth. Also with both of them I had high

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