FINDING LOVE DURING A GLOBAL CRISIS

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING WITNESSED

Towards the end of April I found myself in a place I’d visited before. I was two and a half months out of a relationship that had ripped my world apart with its ending — for the second time. Unlike the first time that relationship ended, the waves of grief were, astoundingly, still surprising me with their tsunami-like intensity, though the frequency of the batterings were much fewer and farther between. I had loved, deeply and fully, and had committed to doing so despite the probability that this relationship was not of the long-term…