Letting go

Friendship is possible when both parties have fairly good emotional boundaries around what’s private and not common ground. These boundaries are going to need time to be regenerated. If were going to separate, the harder task is to separate emotionally, not just physically. Casual leisure contact sends your unconscious the misguided message that the relationship will continue as usual. It will prevent you from getting on with the painful but necessary business of grieving over the losses. If you try to keep casual company with each other, you probably will begin to suffer "strategic amnesia" or another form of creeping ...