Don't expect a reply as the bereaved person has enough to do and may have no energy or inclination to write.
Continue to invite the bereaved person to any events you would've invited them to before.
An example would be a letter of sympathy to a bereaved person.
But a bereaved person is by definition someone who has lost an intimate.
Chronic grief is thought to occur in about 15% of bereaved persons.
This does not mean that when the particular anniversary comes around next time the bereaved person will not find the day difficult.
It is certainly the time when the bereaved person begins to think about forming new attachments in various ways.
So here the bereaved person meets the church in action.
It is hard enough, as we have discovered, for people to know how to behave as a bereaved person.
At some stage a bereaved person usually begins to feel that he or she must be very selfish indeed.