https://blog.halleyadams.uk/tags/family/Recent content in Family on Halley Adams | BlogHugoen-GBTue, 05 May 2026 19:00:00 +0000https://blog.halleyadams.uk/posts/176/Tue, 05 May 2026 19:00:00 +0000https://blog.halleyadams.uk/posts/176/<p>There is a particular kind of grief that does not have a clean name because it is not bereavement, because the person is still here. It is not estrangement, because you have not left. It lives somewhere in the space between loving someone and watching them be slowly consumed by something you cannot reach into and remove. Families with alcoholism in them know this space well and most of us learn to furnish it just to make it liveable, without ever quite acknowledging that we are doing so.</p>