I wonder about this. When several relationships ended, I may have missed company or intimacy, but besides the ending of my first marriage (and that took a while to accept and see clearly everything we weren't) other endings revealed pretty quickly, that it wasn't what I thought it was. It's not that I didn't grieve for the loss or that I wasn't frustrated, rather the grief was more productive. I didn't wallow (as much) in self-pity, I made changes, I stuck more to what I was looking for, and I waited. Oh, I was still lonely, and that sucked.

André Alyeska
André Alyeska

Written by André Alyeska

Editor of Animated Man, Time Traveler and QMHA. Writes on Politics, Social Issues, Men, Mental Health, and Mindfulness with the goal to fix this mess we’re in.

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