L36 · Lens
Love and continuing bonds
Love persists beyond loss; keep the relationship alive through memory, values carried forward and acts in their name.
Use: Bereavement, separation, loneliness after loss.
Boundary: Continuing bonds stand alongside acceptance of reality.
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Feynman's continuing-bond letter to Arline
Sixteen months after his wife Arline died, pragmatic physicist Richard Feynman overcame his belief that there was no sense in writing and wrote her a tender love letter, affirming his enduring love, shared projects and grief.
“Even when chance has taken away those we love, much of them remains with us. The time that has passed is ours; nothing is more secure than what has been.”