Weekly reminder: Sad Valentine?

Gorgeous!🖤

It's Valentine’s Week!! Are you excited!? Let me slow you down for the "day" ahead

There is a kind of pain that grips you when you lose a loved one to death. The kind that stabs, and keeps stabbing. It does not go away, not completely. It creeps in quietly, sometimes when you think you have moved on, when life feels normal again.

We call this grief.

But we rarely speak about another kind of grief, the grief of losing someone who is still alive. The pain of loving deeply, giving your all, and yet watching them walk away. The heartbreak of knowing that, in every way that matters, something has died between you, even though they still breathe somewhere in the world. Your heart breaks, yet there is no funeral, no closure, no final goodbye. Just silence where love used to live. That, too, is grief.

Grief wears many faces. It can be loud or quiet, sudden or slow, devastating or numb. It teaches you to break, to gather your pieces, and to slowly remould yourself again.

So if you are grieving a loss to death, take your time. They will not return, but you are not alone in your pain.

And if you are grieving the loss of a relationship, it is okay too. Almost everyone has walked that road. Maybe you do not need to rush back into love right now. Perhaps all you need, for this season, is to simply live, breathe, and heal. 

Not everyone must love,

Mama🖤