YES! Thank heavens for this!

“ We try to move on too quickly, minimize our experience, replace the hurt with a new romance or a puppy or food or drugs or money — anything to avoid the awfulness of it all.”

Just what I meant- though I didn’t capture it as elegantly in my piece here

The Fundamental Right to Feel Pain

Let people feel the full extent of what has happened, before we ask them to ‘move on’ and ‘let go’. Healing needs time.