Navigating Grief After Your Romantic Relationship Ends
The pain of letting go and finding beauty in life’s changes.
Change sucks. There is no way to soften the blow when it comes to accepting that change is an inevitable part of life. As a behavioral psychologist with nearly twenty-five years of helping others embrace change in their lives, the irony is that we can all experience difficulty accepting change in our own lives.
Yet, the more we try to fight the inevitable, the more of a challenge it can be to come to terms with accepting these changes. Life is unpredictable, and the one constant in life is change.
Navigating changes in our relationships — especially in our romantic relationship — can be difficult. Not many of us actively jump into a relationship assuming that it has an expiration date or that the dynamics will change where our happiness today is gone tomorrow. Instead, we approach relationships from the perspective of the here-and-now.
We gravitate to partners based on where we are in our own growth. We turn to what is comfortable and familiar because we are hardwired to seek out what resonates with our earliest experiences. On one hand, this can provide us with a sense of continuity. Yet, on the other hand, we can be predisposed to choose a partner that resonates with our own…
