Nonfinite Loss
I have found it helpful in recent years to think about unchosen, prolonged singlehood in terms of grief and loss.
Tag: grief
On Heartbreak and Post-Traumatic Growth
This post has been in the works forever. I’ve written about other hard stuff — rejection, loneliness, and ambiguous loss — but not enough about heartbreak. I have to admit that before I experienced heartbreak, it seemed mysterious and romantic to me: imagine having had a relationship that was “real” enough to matter when it ended.