Grieving is a universal experience that everyone goes through in their own unique way. There are no right-ways or wrong-ways, only our way. It’s a journey we wittingly or unwittingly agreed to take the moment we gave our hearts to another. In the immediate aftermath of loss we rely on the love of family and friends, but we must still cry our own tears, learn to eat at a table of one, and somehow get through those long nights alone. This was written three weeks after he died.