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How to Grieve Someone Who Is Still Living

My friends keep trying to set me up on dates but I'm not ready and I don't know how to explain that I'm still grieving a person who is alive and well without me.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Mourning the end of love carries the unique pain of grieving someone who continues to exist, just not with us.

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