Healing the heartbreak of divorce

The end of a marriage can come as a huge shock, resulting in its own grieving process but there is help available, says Catherine Shanahan.

Paul Simon nailed it when he sang that losing love is like a window in your heart — everybody sees you’re blown apart — and that’s particularly true at the graveside where we gather for our final goodbyes.

But while death legitimises grief and the right of the bereft to mourn, there are other forms of loss — such as divorce or separation — where we’re expected to “get on with it” because, after all, “nobody died”.