Grieving the Life You Planned: Marriage, Kids & Career
What happens when the life you pictured for yourself doesn’t happen the way you thought it would, or doesn’t happen at all?
This week on Currently Cringing, we’re talking about the quiet grief nobody really prepares you for: grieving an imagined future. The wedding, the baby, the house, the career, the friendship, the version of yourself you were certain you’d become, and the invisible timelines that somehow became deadlines.
We get into ambiguous loss, milestone birthdays, fertility and aging, social media comparison, family and cultural expectations, the 2 a.m. spiral after someone else’s…
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