Love After Loss

“Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.”

After a significant loss — a death, a divorce, a love that ended — the question of whether to love again is not a simple one.

Part of you wants to. Part of you is terrified. Part of you feels that loving again would be a betrayal of what you lost. Part of you wonders if you have anything left to give.

All of these feelings are true simultaneously. And none of them is the final word.

The capacity to love is not depleted by loss. It is, if anything, deepened. The person who has loved and lost knows something about love that the unlost do not know. They know its weight. They know its value. They know what it costs to lose it.

That knowledge does not make loving again easier. But it makes it more conscious. More chosen. More real.

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