Matthew Hussey explains why you can grieve someone you barely knew. You're not mourning the actual relationship, but the imagined future you created in your head. The pain is real, even though what you lost never existed.
There's no shame in being heartbroken over someone that you only knew for a month because you had really felt like there was something amazing there. But we have to be clear about what we're grieving. I am grieving, yes. But I'm not grieving the tragedy of losing my person. I'm grieving the loss of the thing that I thought it was, but it wasn't, and that's a big, big difference.
