is true that the pain you feel now is intimately connected to love. And—the pain will eventually recede, and love will stay right there. It will deepen and change as all relationships do. Not in the ways you wanted. Not in the ways you deserved. But in the way love does—of its own accord. Your connection to that which you’ve lost will not fade. That’s not our definition of better. As you move forward in this life, your grief, and more important, your love, will come with you. Recovery in grief is a process of moving with what was, what might have been, and what still remains. None of this is
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