My husband and I learned quickly that parenting has deep roots in our personalities and our life experiences. With all of this in mind, let’s consider a few more ideas for a healthy parenting partnership.
Your tension is not about whether, but how much, help to give or, as you put it, it’s between “no matter what the cost” and “everything we reasonably can.”
When you vowed at your wedding to remain faithful to one another “in sickness and in health,” the sickness part included that aching “soul sickness” of grief.