Many of you wrote to me after the last article , sharing your own stories, reflections, and lived experiences of being cracked open by life. I am deeply grateful for your courage, your honesty, and your willingness to normalize vulnerability in a world that so often asks us to hide it. This work is not meant to be done alone, and your voices matter here.   I spoke about how grief, heartbreak, and loss expand our capacity to love, not by bypassing pain, but by allowing life to