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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So lot of factors here, many already covered well, but I would like to add: These were scenarios mentioned (surgeries, cancers, etc) are ones people feel good helping out in and even noble for being associated with.

I assure you, if your sister's husband died while driving drunk, or her kid brought a gun to school, while she would absolutely need support, it would not be all this social media tagging-cassserole-flowers-visits stuff. [/quote]

This, but I would extend it to “messier” problems like going through a divorce, dealing with mental illness (especially depression, people get very scarce with that one), or anything that a person wouldn’t be able to share comfortably on Facebook. There is a lot less public empathy for things that don’t easily translate to a sympathetic photo or post on social media. It can be really isolating.[/quote]

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You get these outpourings, as you should, when a child has cancer. This is not what happens when your child, for example, is raped. [/quote]

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