Grief for a dead parent can be triggered by a parent’s remarriage

Evidence

But soon she saw a soft side to him. The bridal shower was held at the family’s house just before the wedding. At one point Lina was sitting by herself, lost in sadness, when Laith spotted her. He came down the stairs and sat next to her, asking her quietly what she was thinking. She told him that the wedding was freaking her out. It wasn’t that she resented her stepmother-to-be, but the whole thing was so confusing. All she could think about was how much she missed her own mother, how no one could take her place, and how she wasn’t going to gain anything from the marriage. Laith listened to her quietly. She finished speaking and looked at him, and there was something tender behind his eyes. She thought about how she hadn’t noticed that before. — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 654

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader theme of Arab-American immigrant family life and the psychological texture Bayoumi is building across all eight profiles; also echoes the loss-driven identity material in The Reluctant Fundamentalist.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 654