WELLBEING → WORDS UNSPOKEN Issue 1041 · December 18, 2024

Dear Kallah Who Just Broke Her Engagement

Feel the pain, but don’t allow it to give you the false impression that Hashem isn’t in this tzarah with you

Dear Kallah Who Just Broke Her Engagement
Dear Kallah Who Just Broke Her Engagement,

Tornado is the only word I can use to describe what you’ve been through.

You fell from the highest of highs to the lowest of lows. You fell from simchah and glory to the humiliation of having to share that you won’t be standing under the chuppah within the next few months, after all.

It’s hard to put into words the pain and anguish, the days you went through that blurred together with tears and sorrow. My dear friend, it’s a nisayon of epic proportions. I want you to hold on to the hope of better days, the emunah that Hashem has something in store for you that will be grander. Goodness and shefa await you, even though it might not come as soon as you imagined it.

No, watching your friends move on to the next stages of their lives while you’re in limbo isn’t pleasant. You feel stagnant and broken as you work to process your emotions about all that you’ve been through.

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