Living with loss long-term

Loss does not end; it takes up residence. For the most significant losses — a child, a partner, a core identity — the question becomes not how to get over it but how to live well with what remains. Long-term survivors of significant loss report that what matters most is not the diminishment of grief but the growth of the container that holds it — a self spacious enough to carry sorrow without being only sorrow. This domain looks at what sustains people across years and decades of living with loss.