How do I grieve the end of a relationship when everyone expects me to move on?

There's this pressure, isn't there? Like your grief has an expiration date. Mirabai knew something about this—she loved Krishna so completely that when that love was tested, when devotion became longing, she didn't apologize for the depth of it. She wrote anyway. She felt anyway. Moving on and moving through aren't the same thing. Moving on suggests you're leaving something behind. Moving through means you're actually feeling it, integrating it, letting it change you. That takes longer than anyone wants to admit. Weeks, months, sometimes years in waves. What helps: Stop performing recovery for other people. Grief doesn't need an audience or a timeline. Write if you need to. Sit with the ache without rushing to fix it. The examined heart—the one that looks honestly at what was, what is, what you learned—that heart doesn't just 'get over it.' It becomes wiser. It becomes more itself. Your people can wait. Your grief cannot be rushed. Honor both.