When Grief Enters a Relationship: Love, Loss & How Couples Survive ft. Sidney Raz

What happens when grief enters a relationship — and suddenly love, dating, marriage, friendship, family, and even your situationship all start acting weird? In this episode of MissJudged, Alyssa is joined by viral creator Sidney Raz (@sidneyraz) for a raw, funny, and surprisingly helpful conversation about grief, loss, love, cancer, miscarriage, death, and how relationships survive life’s most devastating moments. Don’t worry we keep it fun and funny!

Sidney opens up about losing his daughter in utero, his experience with miscarriage and pregnancy loss, and how that heartbreaking loss led to the discovery of his cancer diagnosis. Alyssa and Sidney also talk about the deaths and losses they have both experienced, and how grief changed the way they showed up in romantic relationships, marriages, situationships, friendships, family dynamics, and even their own identities.

This episode breaks down how grief affects relationships, dating, marriage, emotional availability, intimacy, communication, resentment, support systems, and the way people see you when you appear resilient, positive, or “fine” on the outside.

Alyssa and Sidney also get into the five stages of grief, how long grief actually takes, why healing is not linear, and why grief does not politely follow a calendar invite. They discuss what NOT to say to someone who is grieving, how to support a grieving partner, friend, or family member, what people get wrong about miscarriage and cancer, and how humor can become a survival tool when life is being deeply offensive. Because sometimes being the funny one doesn’t mean sending someone grieving an “RIP” or a “thoughts and prayers” text.

If you have ever experienced grief, death, miscarriage, pregnancy loss, cancer, friendship loss, family trauma, a breakup, dating after loss, or trying to keep a relationship alive while emotionally unwell, this episode is honest, emotional, funny, and deeply relatable.

Topics discussed include grief and relationships, how grief affects relationships, dating after loss, love after loss, miscarriage, pregnancy loss, cancer diagnosis, death and grief, grief in marriage, grief in dating, grief in situationships, friendship grief, family dynamics, emotional resilience, toxic positivity, the five stages of grief, what not to say to someone grieving, how to support someone grieving, and how couples survive grief.

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