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How to grieve the loss of an imagined future

I'm forty-five and just realized I'll never have children and I don't know how to mourn something that was never real but still feels like death.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The death of possibilities we never consciously chose can still wound us as deeply as actual loss, mourning what never was but always could have been.

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