You buy groceries you used to share. Then you stand in your home staring at them like artifacts from a life you're no longer living.
Maybe you eat everything in one sitting without tasting any of it. Maybe you can't eat at all. Maybe both happen in the same week, and you wonder if you're losing your mind on top of everything else.
Grief disrupts eating patterns in ways that feel personal and isolating, but it's one of the most common physical responses to loss. What nobody mentions is how strange it feels-not just the appetite changes, but the guilt that comes with them. The shame of eating too much. The worry about eating too little. The exhaustion of trying to care about something as ordinary as lunch when nothing feels ordinary anymore.