Grief that isn't going away after a year

There is absolutely nothing wrong with you. The idea that grief has a neat timeline of stages ending in "acceptance" within a year is a cultural myth. Grief does not shrink over time; rather, your life slowly grows around it. However, if the grief remains so intense that you cannot function in daily life (unable to work, socialize, or care for yourself) long past a year, you may be experiencing Prolonged Grief Disorder (formerly complex grief). This happens when the natural mourning process gets "stuck," and specific grief-focused therapies can help untangle it.

My therapist told me "grief is just love with nowhere to go." It helped me accept that I will probably grieve in some way forever, and that is okay.