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I'm sorry, but I see a categorical difference between a partner's death, and abandonment. Maybe others don't, but in my categories the latter implies at least

• Fnoord 10y ago
  > I'm sorry, but I see a categorical difference between a partner's death, and abandonment. > Maybe others don't, but in my categories the latter implies at least deliberacy, if not malice. I don't see it as either one way or the other. They share similarities, but I agree they also have differences. Intention is an example of a difference. Deaths, as by disease, is generally not predictable. What they have in common is both are on first glance painful, and negative. That's a matter of coping and adapting. Human beings don't do that beforehand though.