Relationships take up energy; letting go of them, psychiatrists theorize, entails mental work. When you lose someone you were close to, you have to reassess your picture of the world and your place in it. The more your identity was wrapped up with the deceased, the more difficult the loss.
タグ: relationships, mourning, loss, identity, grief, death

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Many Americans don't mourn in public anymore - we don't wear black, we don't beat our chests and wail.
タグ: our, wear, beat, black
To mourn is to wonder at the strangeness that grief is not written all over your face in bruised hieroglyphics. And it's also to feel, quite powerfully, that you're not allowed to descend into the deepest fathom of your grief - that to do so would be taboo somehow.
タグ: grief, feel, face, you
Grief is at once a public and a private experience. One's inner, inexpressible disruption cannot be fully realized in one's public persona.
タグ: disruption, cannot, grief, experience
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.
タグ: talents, theory, about, women
If the condition of grief is nearly universal, its transactions are exquisitely personal.
タグ: condition, universal, personal, grief
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