Accepted Bonds

Just after I’d decided to accept my bonds, I was hurt and kidnapped by a friend I blindly trusted. Despite the poison coursing through my veins, threatening to extinguish my life with each passing day, giving up is not an option. My true mates and my family are still out there, searching for me. All I have to do now is stay alive, hold on to every glimmer of hope, and assist in guiding them to my rescue. In the face of darkness, I fight not just for my own life but for the love that awaits me, my family whose worlds would crumble if any harm befell me, and the innocent pack observers in grave danger. Accepted Bonds is the last of four books in Their Fated Mate Series. *If you like these tropes: fated mates, reverse harem / why choose romance, badass female main characters, cinnamon roll Alphas, childhood sweetheart romance, friends to lovers, enemies to lovers, werewolf romances, etc, this series is for you.

First published in 1996. This new book gives voice to an emerging consensus among bereavement scholars that our understanding of the grief process needs to be expanded. The dominant 20th century model holds that the function of grief and mourning is to cut bonds with the deceased, thereby freeing the survivor to reinvest in new relationships in the present. Pathological grief has been defined in terms of holding on to the deceased. Close examination reveals that this model is based more on the cultural values of modernity than on any substantial data of what people actually do. Presenting data from several populations, 22 authors - among the most respected in their fields - demonstrate that the health resolution of grief enables one to maintain a continuing bond with the deceased. Despite cultural disapproval and lack of validation by professionals, survivors find places for the dead in their on-going lives and even in their communities. Such bonds are not denial: the deceased can provide resources for enriched functioning in the present. Chapters examine widows and widowers, bereaved children, parents and siblings, and a population previously excluded from bereavement research: adoptees and their birth parents. Bereavement in Japanese culture is also discussed, as are meanings and implications of this new model of grief. Opening new areas of research and scholarly dialogue, this work provides the basis for significant developments in clinical practice in the field.