The best advice that I got during counseling: Don’t judge your spouse’s grief response. Give them the freedom to grieve their own way. – Rachel Crawford.

Trust your partner’s way of coping to be the best they are able to do and be at every moment in time.

Just because we lost a life, doesn’t mean we have to lose ourselves. – Tamara Gabriel.

Grieving is intense and it is non-stop intense. Even if things are quiet, and you’re sitting there in your chair, kind of staring off into space, inside, the intensity is raging. – Lori Ennis.

We do not “get over” a death. We learn to carry the grief and integrate the loss in our lives. In our hearts, we carry those who have died. We grieve and we love. We remember.

We do not have control over many thingsin life and deathbut we do have controlover the meaning we give it.

Grief is a universal experiencefrom which no onewill be spared.

Never compare your grief.You - and only youwalk your path.

It is time to teach society on how to be empathetic with people grieving.

I don't think we had a joint mission to keep our relationship together. It was like: "Every man for himself." I was in so much pain, I wasn't really looking out for your interests. I didn't have the facility or resource to really do that, to be there for you. Thankfully everything held together. Our love for each other kept on a progression. It could have easily gone the other way." - Jonathan Pascual