Don’t “just focus on yourself.” Build a life centered around yourself. Romantic love may be something you want in your life, but it may be one of many wants. Many tend to orbit themselves around the idea of a relationship, when it should be the other way around. A romantic attachment is one of the many domains that orbits around you. Direct your energy towards your hobbies, career, health, and other goals. Your passions and desires can all co-exist like a solar system in balance.

Grief is the initial reaction and feelings to a death or major loss across physical, social, emotional, and behavioral facets. Bereavement are the experiences and adjustment to life that follows after the loss.