The People We Most Love

My Theory Is This: Women Falter When They're Called On To Be Highly Self-conscious About Their Talents. Not When They're Called On To Enact Them.

There Are Many Kinds Of Loss Embedded In A Loss - The Loss Of The Person, And The Loss Of The Self You Got To Be With That Person. And The Seeming Loss Of The Past, Which Now Feels Forever Out Of Reach.

Grief Is Characterized Much More By Waves Of Feeling That Lessen And Reoccur, It's Less Like Stages And More Like Different States Of Feeling.

But There Is A Discomfort That Surrounds Grief. It Makes Even The Most Well-intentioned People Unsure Of What To Say. And So Many Of The Freshly Bereaved End Up Feeling Even More Alone.

Many Researchers Say The Dominant Emotion Experienced After Loss Is Yearning Or Searching. And While You Might Feel More Anger Early On, It's Accompanied By A Whole Host Of Other Feelings.