Image of a text that says "People talk about 'getting over it' like grief is some mountain you climb and leave behind. But the trust is: you don't get over love. And in that lies the reason you can't get over grief either. Because if you could forget that easily, if you could move on like nothing ever happened, maybe it was never really love at all. No, real love doesn't vanish when someone's gone. It lingers in the way you speak their name, in the memories that leak up on you, in the ache that lives quietly inside your chest. That ache isn't weakness. It isn't failure. It's proof. Proof that what you shared was real. Proof that they mattered. Proof that love doesn't end, even when life does."

You can't get over grief. You carry it with you because you carry the love you have/had for them with you, too.

(Image from rom the Pretty Painful Grief Book on Instagram)

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