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Dear LFTP February 5, 2018 · 53:05 · 5 min

Dear LFTP: seated four rows back at the funeral

  • Was a wife wrong to feel hurt after her husband asked her to sit four rows back at his brother's funeral?

Mike reads a listener letter from a woman married sixteen years whose husband, devastated by his brother's sudden death, asked her to sit four rows back at the funeral because the front row was for immediate family. The hosts lean toward it being grief making people act in ways that do not make sense, possibly a family tradition, and one host recounts his own grief behavior: insisting on an open-casket funeral for his mother against everyone's wishes. The Secular answer says she should only feel hurt if she alone was singled out; the hosts add that it may not be worth investing in even if true.

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