How did you grow up learning to deal with sadness?

Prompt 9 of The Prompted Memoir

Consider how you grew up learning to deal with sadness.

Every family has their way of dealing or not dealing with emotions. Maybe it has to do with how some of our parents were raised, an avoidance of stress, or just that some were more private around their emotional vulnerability. Perhaps, some emotions were more apparent, while some were absent altoge…