I lost someone I love
Someone you love is gone, and there are no words that fit a space that large, so we won't pretend there are. The ache you feel is the exact size of how much they mattered to you. Missing them isn't something to move past; it's a way of keeping them close, and that is allowed to stay. You don't have to be okay today — you only have to be here, and you are, and that is enough.
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Grieving
I lost someone I love
“The person you lost was irreplaceable, and so the hole they left is shaped exactly like them. No one will fill it, but love gathers softly around its edges.”
More comforting words for this feeling
“You don't get over a person you love. You learn, slowly, to carry them with you, folded into who you are.”
“Missing the specific things, their laugh, the way they said your name, is not torturing yourself. It's loving them in the only way still available to you.”
“Death ended their life, not your relationship with them. The bond goes on, quieter now, carried entirely on your side, but real all the same.”