For most people who experience it, the end of a committed relationship comes as a shock. Perhaps you have to go through a divorce or dissolution to understand how long shock can last: it is as often a long painful bewilderment as it is a clean cut catastrophe. For this reason, the process of getting through divorce is often likened to the process of grieving over a death and parallels can be drawn in the emotional processes people experience in response to both types of event. In 1969, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross wrote an important book called ‘On Death and Dying’ which…
