Talk:EESM 2.0/@comment-4423292-20190312035350/@comment-4423292-20190312051124

It's the kind of thing that never stops hurting, never stops being emotionally exhausting. In the long term that's really takes a toll on a person. Over the span of more than a decade, that can really wring a person out, leaving them drained and spent, all over something that isn't even an active feature of their life at this point. That kind of longing and loss and grief is corrosive.

It is so heavy. You can't carry that with you everywhere you go while at the same time getting on with the business of living. You've got to set it aside, put it on a shelf and only open it occasionally.