Category Archives: carnival

Jul
17
  • Second Thoughts, Two-Way Street, and Heartbreak in a Dial Tone

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    Welcome to the current edition of Relationship Closures. Here are three entries that I selected for this edition. Please keep in mind that while I may not have included your entry in this edition, I visit and read each and every submission, and do appreciate the time you take to write and send them. Dani’s Having second thoughts? Changed a lot? Goodbye shows how a person perceives physical and emotional changes in three of his relationships. Relationships can change when [...]

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Jun
23
  • Lost Love and Unfulfilled Love

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    I really enjoyed the submissions I received for this edition of the relationship closure carnival. These bloggers bared their souls and write beautifully about some painful subjects. Thank you all! Nathanael presents Oh Cupid, where art thou? “To be alone, to have no one to share life with, no one to sacrifice for, no one to love, would be, for me, an unhappy and unfulfilled existence. This is why broken relationships and lost love are so profound in my eyes. [...]

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Jun
3
  • Relationship Heaven and Hell

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    Thanks for all who had submitted to this edition of the relationship closure carnival. Here are the three entries selected for this edition. Eduardo‘s marriage had gone to heaven. I never thought about past relationships this way, and it puts a wise perspective on a painful situation. Even some cancer patients have learned to make peace with their cancer at some point. I’m also glad to have discovered Eduardo’s blog. Brandon‘s presents Open letter to his parents is self explanatory. [...]

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Mar
7
  • Loss, Love, and Lies

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    In 2005, Mike lost his wife of 20 years to a car accident. He decided to confront his grief head-on, or as Mike described, to “embrace the grieving process.” I think Mike did the bravest thing one can do in a loss like this; he lived through it. He didn’t run away from it or hid from it. Sometimes medication can help with the extreme psychic pain of mourning such a loss, and while Mike chose not to take the [...]

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Jan
29
  • The Relative Goodbye

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    Linda sent her piece on “saying goodbye” and more specifically, saying goodbye to Aunt Sherry, who was 95 and was in a coma prior to her passing. When I was growing up I became completely disconnected from my grandparents. Because I had moved from where I was born to other continents, and taken root in those continents, three of four of my grandparents passed away and I didn’t attend any of the funerals. For one thing, our relationship had thinned [...]

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