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In acute grief, each pang of grief, each stab of pain when your expectation, desire, or need for your loved one is unmet, brings you yet another lesson that your loved one is no longer here. You want to resist it and have the lesson not be true. Like a habit you don’t want to relinquish, you don’t want to let go of having your loved one in your life. Yet, over time, after countless times of experiencing an unrequited need to be reunited with that loved one, you learn not to need that person in the same way as before. This is not an all or nothing event. It is a process in which you have changing abilities to grasp the reality of the death. This occurs until at some point it becomes a permanent realization for you despite your wishes to the