You're Not Too Sensitive. You're Exhausted.
There is a particular kind of grief that doesn't announce itself clearly. It doesn't arrive with a defined loss or a moment you can point to. It accumulates quietly, over time, in the space between what you hoped a relationship would be and what it has actually been. And it is made more complicated by the fact that the person you are grieving is still present.
Mourning a Relationship That Was Never Quite What You Hoped
There is a particular kind of grief that doesn't announce itself clearly. It doesn't arrive with a defined loss or a moment you can point to. It accumulates quietly, over time, in the space between what you hoped a relationship would be and what it has actually been. And it is made more complicated by the fact that the person you are grieving is still present.