Allowing Yourself to Grieve the Life You Thought You’d Live…

This is a kind of grief no one talks about

Grief doesn’t only follow death. Sometimes, grief shows up when the life you thought you’d live slips out of reach.

Maybe you pictured a family that didn’t come, a career that never took off,
a love that never found you, a family life that included a partner to share the load with, a version of yourself you expected to become — and didn’t.

It’s a quiet grief. Often invisible, sometimes even hard to identify by ourselves.  And because it isn’t widely acknowledged, many people push it down or minimize it. They say things like:

“Other people have it worse.”
“I should be grateful for what I have.”
“I should be over it.”