❤️ Sending you a big hug and lots of love. You miss your partner and the love of your life—you have every right to miss him. Your heart pain is real.

These rude experiences are awakenings. Her diagnosis is not an excuse to treat you as she did.

She could have politely said, "So sorry Natalie, I do not have the capacity to hold space for you right now." That would be acknowledging your pain and hers. Instead she belittled and dismissed your pain. There's a difference.