Holding Space for Lovers Lost

We can hold space for lovers that are gone without living in the past or wishing for it.

Photo by Caroline Veronez on Unsplash

Childhood thinking is black and white. There’s no room inside it for ambiguity, for the gray areas of life. But it seems like we take that thinking into our adulthood and apply it broadly to our ideas of love and romance. We want to make it simple when love is often both incredibly simply and heartrendingly complicat…