Popular songs are often about the loss of love; “the blues” is a whole genre of music built on the experience of losing love, and country-western music is well known for its songs of lost love. People experience loss of love in many ways. The couple may realize that their relationship was based on passion and cannot develop into long-term love. One partner may decide, for his or her own reasons, to end a relationship that is still valued by the other partner. Also, a partner may be lost to disease or may die.
The loss of love is a time of mourning, and going through a period of sadness and depression, as well as anger at the partner, is natural. Most people are also very vulnerable after the loss of a love relationship—vulnerable to rushing into another relationship
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