Bingo 1, the truth is, it will never go completely away but, like a severe injury, the pain will slowly ease. How long that takes depends on the severity and how you yourself are able to cope with it. Some people heal faster than others and there are no rights and wrongs about how long it takes.
Eventually it will ease to a level where it settles and you will eventually adjust to that. Every so often, just as with an old severe injury, something will happen and you will get a sharp dig which will let you know it still hasn’t gone away completely.
Whatever you do, let it take it’s own course. Trying to block the process or suppress it only means the process hides itself away and cause problems later.
That’s the bad side, the good side is that the advice others have posted is good side advice which is worth trying. Eventually you will find the ones which work for you.
Whatever you do, don’t give up and remember, everybody who suffers a similar loss goes through the same thing to one degree or another.
What you are feeling is quite normal and never, ever, feel that it isn’t.
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