"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

The comments are already beginning to sort out between people who have experience of difficult family members and people who think the coworker is Just Being Kind and Making Sure LW can Go To The Funeral because Who Wouldn't Want To Go To The Funeral that's Just Unthinkable. Some people with happy families are brutally unsympathetic to those with more fraught families, I STG.