Grieving the Living: The Unspoken Pain of Losing Someone Still Here

I wish more people talked about how painful it is to grieve someone who is still alive. There’s no funeral, no finality, no closure—just an aching void where once there was connection, love, and trust

Grieving the Living: The Unspoken Pain of Losing Someone Still Here

I wish more people talked about how gut-wrenchingly painful it is to grieve someone who is still alive. There’s no funeral, no finality, no closure—just a hollow ache where connection, love, and trust once flourished. This grief doesn’t come from death; it comes from the shattering betrayal that cuts deeper than any knife, from the slow, agonizing realization that the person you once knew, the person you once loved, no longer exists in the same way.