Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff.

This is part four of a four-part series on relationships.

In part one, we looked at how to be a great partner friend.

In part two, we looked at how to be a great partner friend. In part two we looked at how to find a great

partner or a friend. In part three we looked at how to keep a great partner or a friend. And then

this last part, part four, we're going to look at how to deal with the loss of a great partner or friend.

I know what some of you may be thinking, I'm going to keep my relationship to the very end.

And that may be the case, but many of us won't be doing that.

And even if we make it to our death, one of us is going to die first, and the other one has to go on and deal with the loss of their partner,

friend.

So this is something we are all going to face and it's something important to learn how to deal

with well as we navigate the course of life and

relationships.

Let's begin by looking at why do relationships end.

The simplest explanation is one of the partners dies and then the relationship ends at that point.

We all get that.

Not everyone lives forever and one of us is going to die.

So that's something that we're going to have to deal with throughout our life.

It may not be our partner that we're spending our life with, but it may be our best friend,

it may be our parents, it may be a dear associate of ours that we work with. But the truth is, relationships

end via death. Sometimes people die and we have to deal with our loss. But the main way

we experience the loss of relationships is when

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