not advocating a quick and easy pathway to ghosting friends, no longer seeing your parents, or quickly divorcing your spouse. Processing a possible goodbye isn’t permission to peace out or tap out. It’s a pathway toward grieving and accepting one of the toughest realities we will ever face—an unsustainable relationship. Those words unsustainable relationship feel like a stab to my heart. I want relationships to be good and last for good. The grief over relationships ending is some of the deepest I’ve ever known.
