ambiguous grief

Ambiguous grief is realizing you'll never have something you always thought you would. It's that moment when you understand that your vision of the future - that picture-perfect idea you held onto - will never materialize. And when that realization hits? It feels like the ghost of the deepest, darkest sadness you've ever felt comes up behind you and punches your soul right in the groin.

Yeah, I know that sounds ridiculous, but that's exactly what it feels like.
Most people won't even acknowledge it. You might not tell anyone because you didn't even have words for it - until now. The world doesn't recognize ambiguous grief.

They don't consider mourning something you never had as a 'real' loss. But that's exactly what it is - grieving an alternate universe version of yourself that will never be allowed to exist, a version that will never come to fruition.

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