While our understandings of widowhood following long-term same-sex unions and marriages are still limited, long-partnered but unmarried opposite sex and same-sex partners often experienced what has been termed "________"
A) disenfranchised grief.
B) marginalized grief.
C) displaced grief.
D) excluded grief.
E) alienated grief.

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Disenfranchised grief refers to grief that is not acknowledged or socially supported, which can occur in situations where the relationship is not recognized or valued by society, such as in long-term but unmarried partnerships.

While Our Understandings of Widowhood Following Long-Term Same-Sex Unions and Marriages