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Why Does a Breakup Hurt So Much? Understanding Breakup Grief and How to Heal from Divorce or Relationship Loss
Grief can make reading hard. Want to listen to this article instead? Find its corresponding podcast episode here.
If you've ever grieved a breakup or divorce and someone in your life said a version of "Well, at least nobody died," I want to tell you this:
While it may be true that “no one died,” you are still experiencing a grief event.
Perhaps your ex partner didn’t di
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“Insisting that life stay the same post-loss is essentially the same as saying, “Let’s just pretend this never happened.” That’s an incredible disservice to the person, place, or thing that you lost. Did you love what you lost? If you didn’t love it, was it important, significant, influential, or a large chunk of your life? Did you have hopes, dreams, or expectations attached to it? Then it’s worth grieving its loss. And that loss will change your identity on some level.”
― Permission to Grieve: Creating Grace, Space, & Room to Breathe in the Aftermath of Loss
― Permission to Grieve: Creating Grace, Space, & Room to Breathe in the Aftermath of Loss
“We don’t grieve things that don’t matter to us. Grieving is just another way of saying, “I care a whole, whole lot about the person I’ve lost, and it’s hard not having them here.” The next time you start to beat yourself up for feeling grief, gently remind yourself that grief is not a sign that something is wrong with you; it’s evidence that you had a strong connection to the person you’ve lost.”
― Your Grief, Your Way: A Year of Practical Guidance and Comfort After Loss
― Your Grief, Your Way: A Year of Practical Guidance and Comfort After Loss
“Grief is not a linear slide into darkness. It is a cyclical path that eventually rotates into light. Spring comes after the cold, harsh winter. Yes, there are seasons when grief is louder and more disruptive, but there are also seasons when grief backs off, your strength returns, and night turns into morning.”
― Your Grief, Your Way: A Year of Practical Guidance and Comfort After Loss
― Your Grief, Your Way: A Year of Practical Guidance and Comfort After Loss
“Grief is a normal, natural human experience.”
― Permission to Grieve: Creating Grace, Space, & Room to Breathe in the Aftermath of Loss
― Permission to Grieve: Creating Grace, Space, & Room to Breathe in the Aftermath of Loss
“Grief is not fixable, curable, or preventable. It is not a “condition” or pathology.”
― Permission to Grieve: Creating Grace, Space, & Room to Breathe in the Aftermath of Loss
― Permission to Grieve: Creating Grace, Space, & Room to Breathe in the Aftermath of Loss
“Once grief enters your life, it remains a part of your life whether you acknowledge it or not.”
― Permission to Grieve: Creating Grace, Space, & Room to Breathe in the Aftermath of Loss
― Permission to Grieve: Creating Grace, Space, & Room to Breathe in the Aftermath of Loss
“Grief looks, feels, and shows up differently to each person. Just like no two losses are alike, no two griefs are alike, either. You cannot know the full depth of another person’s experience and they cannot know the full depth of yours.”
― Permission to Grieve: Creating Grace, Space, & Room to Breathe in the Aftermath of Loss
― Permission to Grieve: Creating Grace, Space, & Room to Breathe in the Aftermath of Loss
“You cannot fix, change, or remove another person’s grief. You cannot “spare” someone the pain of grieving a loss. Your grief belongs to you; their grief belongs to them.”
― Permission to Grieve: Creating Grace, Space, & Room to Breathe in the Aftermath of Loss
― Permission to Grieve: Creating Grace, Space, & Room to Breathe in the Aftermath of Loss