Everyday many relationships break up, leaving the two people involved with overwhelming emotions, grief, despair, and even a sense of death. What is the best way to deal with this emotions in a positive manner? How does one find closure?

What about an obituary?

A new website, created by Kathleen Horan, offers people a way to bring closure to the death of a relationship. Kathleen explains that the moment of clarity came when, after the end of a long term relationship, she was writing an obituary for her father. She found as she wrote the words of mourning and loss, she was comforted. She decided to try to write an obituary for her relationship, and in doing so found closure and comfort. She began a website called, Relationshipobit.com.

The website looks like a newspaper with obituaries laid out in a very readable format. There is a title, a place for the cause of death to be listed, and then an area for the obituary itself.

Some of the causes of death were abusive alcoholism, finances, unknown, and even Jekyll and Hyde. The obituaries are heartwarming, sad, funny, bitter, and very, very entertaining.

Foe centuries poets like Burns, Tennyson, and even Shakespeare, have mourned lost love with their words and poetry. Artists have painted masterpieces to help them deal with grief over lost and broken relationships, and event he Taj Mahal was created in memory of lost love.

Maybe you can't build the Taj Mahal, but being able to write your feelings down in a journal, whether on the Internet or by hand in a special book is very therapeutic. The very act of journaling sadness, grief, and loss gives our emotions validity, and allows us to sort through a jumble of feelings, file them in the proper places and move on. Sometimes it takes time for the healing process to happen. Writing one journal entry may not eradicate the feelings that are churning inside. A journal should be kept and written in as long as needed for the healing to be complete. Sometimes that takes months.

Dealing with the grief of the loss of a love is something that we all deal with at one time or another. By reading other people's thoughts in places like Relationshipobit.com, other people's journals, or even classic poems written by lovelorn poets from Victorian, our thoughts and feelings fall into perspective, and we are comforted.