Some grief doesn’t come from death.
It comes from being unseen.
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synthesizing grief
missing you, though you're still there
transformed by these words

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Screenshot of poem written in text by @sherekhanum.bsky.social / user Shere Khancept: when did I stop being your safe place? and when did your love shift to mere affection? I wish I could trace it all back, plot the paths, walk the steps taken so at least I'd understand -- but it's not understanding I'm really searching for; deep down, I ache from impossibility. I know that -- but knowledge alone does not change make. I wish you loved me. I wish I'd stop wishing. I wish you'd ever reconsider. I wish that were possible. the barriers are permanent but it hurts worse that you don't love me anymore - like it was always fully a choice for you.

the heartache goes quiet sometimes, but turns out it is still endless.

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Are you, or do you know someone who is a carer for someone with a life limiting or long-term illness? People might assume grief starts when life ends, but it often begins earlier.

www.griefspecialists.org/post/living-...

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It took my therapist's reminder that the Stages of Grief concept was created for the perspective of terminally ill folks, to give myself a bit of a break with the turmoil I've been feeling.

Turns out Living Grief is a whole different, cyclical beast.

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