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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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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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