The Science of Making (and Keeping) Friends
A Slight Change of Plans
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The Importance of Allowing Grief in the Loss of a Friendship
Disenfranchised grief is when society doesn't legitimize our loss and we might invalidate our own grief process./nYou can't just suppress grief, and you actually have to feel the grief for it to be released from you./nPeople who lose really close friends can feel very isolated and preoccupied with the loss for a long period of time because they feel like their loss isn't valid and their body's telling them the opposite message./nIt's important to give ourselves space to grieve when a friendship ends for whatever reason.
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