“You’ll get over it.” “You’ll find someone else.” “Plenty more fish in the sea.” This is advice frequently given to someone going through a crushing heartbreak. Though well meant, there is something singularly unhelpful—if not outright offensive—about it. Why, exactly, is that? What is it that strikes precisely the wrong chord in this seemingly reasonable […] The post The Shock of the Old: The Epistemic Challenge of Personal Transformation first appeared on Blog of the APA.
