“Remember always to move at your own pace. When you attempt to hurry yourself through a loss you don’t escape the grief, you bury it, and one day it will find a way back to the surface. Only you can know the distance of your healing and only you can know when you have arrived.”— Beau Taplin, thoughtcatalog.com
“Narcissists hate to fail or lose, so they will do what they can to maintain some connection if they didn't make the choice to end it…They can experience narcissistic injury when rejected by a partner and have difficulties letting it go or healing from it… they may stay connected [to exes in order to…”— Tony Ferretti, broadly.vice.com