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Anticipatory grief

Anticipatory grief is the mourning that happens before death arrives—when someone is terminal, when a relationship is clearly ending, when a major life changes are unavoidable—and it's not weak or premature but a way of integrating loss before it physically happens. Recognizing it as legitimate can actually deepen how you show up in whatever time remains.

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