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When moving on feels like betrayal of the dead

My wife died six months ago and people keep telling me I should start dating again but the thought of loving someone else feels like betrayal.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Grief can become a prison when loyalty to the past prevents inhabiting the present.

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