Chronic Sorrow

Our wedding day. July 25, 2015. The future looked so bright.

“Chronic Sorrow: A natural grief reaction to losses that are not final but continue to be present in the life of the griever.

Chronic sorrow is not about endings; it is about living with unremovable loss and problems that cannot be fixed.

It is due to a series of losses requiring energy and courage to cope with crises and make the adaptions necessary to live a life of one’s own choosing. This process is about finding a way forward in the face of a series of losses.”

I don’t know to who to attribute this quote too, but I found it somewhere in my meanderings. It describes my current mindset perfectly.

January 18, 2023