2 Responses to 2014-04-15 13.52.32

1. Sally Robinson says:

   April 28, 2014 at 1:55 pm

   What about ‘closure’ and ‘moving on’? Found myself using these to a dear friend who had just lost her sister. Then feeling awful and inadequate. Perhaps just all clichés should go? When I was going thru my divorce someone, obviously in comforting mode, said ‘there’s always light at the end of the tunnel’. I could have strangled her!
   Love ‘blotting your copy book’. My mum always used that!

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2. susancarey says:

   April 28, 2014 at 5:15 pm

   Yes, closure is a clinical one, isn’t it? Not exactly the language of Shakespeare, and what does it actually mean? I suppose in difficult situations we all occasionally fall into platitudes when we don’t really know how to comfort the other person.

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