I used to think that grief was something that you have purely as a result of losing love.
While that is certainly true, now I see that it is also present as we open to receiving love.
I think this has many dimensions in the context of romantic love:
- We are grieving the idea of losing them as we open to loving them. This is why love is also accompanied with a sacred tension where we are simultaneously feeling what it will be like to lose them one day, whilst also opening to loving them. To love fully is to accept loss fully.
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