![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When I wrote Lean In, I certainly thought about single mothers and single parents, and I wrote about that in the book. On how losing her husband made her rethink some of the things she wrote about in 2013's Lean In And one of the reasons I wrote the book and am launching is that the problem with that is that we then don't help each other when we most need that help, and I think that's when we can most come together. These things are uncomfortable, and because they're uncomfortable people are often afraid of saying the wrong thing and often say nothing at all, and then we have this huge elephant in a room following us around. You know, have someone in your family go to prison. You want to silence a room? Get diagnosed with cancer. ![]() And I think they were so afraid of saying the wrong thing that they hardly said anything at all.Īnd it's not just death which does this, it's really all forms of adversity. A lot of that just stopped and people kind of looked at me like I was a ghost. My interactions before - I would drop my kids off at school and, you know, the parents and I would all wave to each other show up at work and everyone would chit chat. On how the people around her reacted to her loss ![]()
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