Different content
Although grief is usually thought of in relation to the loss of a loved person or relationship, losses can also involve the loss of a thing, an activity, a location, or information (the other four categories of what has been called “meta-program content-sorting”) For some people the loss of a cherished ring, the loss of the ability to play a life-long sport, the loss of a family home, or the loss of special memories or other information can be as severe as the loss of a loved person. Often a loss involves several of these simultaneously; the loss of a person can also result in the loss of the activities and the things that were shared, the location in which those activities occurred, etc. The same pattern works equally well with any such loss, as long as the principal content in the resource of presence matches the content of the loss.
