Until We Meet Again

On Grief, Love, and the Science of Lasting Connections 
By Maria Baiu-Păvăleanu

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Until We Meet Again is a deeply personal and intellectually grounded exploration of grief, love, and human attachment, written at the intersection of lived experience and contemporary science.

The book begins with a sudden rupture: the author’s husband collapses and dies unexpectedly, dividing her life into a stark “before” and “after.” What follows is not only a memoir of loss, but a year-long journey through grief—documented with honesty, clarity, and courage. Through diary-like reflections, intimate letters, and carefully researched chapters, Maria Baiu-Păvăleanu traces the emotional, bodily, and neurological impact of losing a life partner.

What distinguishes Until We Meet Again is its dual voice. Alongside the raw narrative of mourning, the author draws on neuroscience, psychology, and attachment theory to explain what happens in the brain and body when we lose someone we love. Concepts such as attachment bonds, longing, protest and despair, the “broken heart syndrome,” and continuing bonds are presented with scientific accuracy, yet in accessible language, always anchored in lived reality.

This is not a self-help manual, nor a guide promising quick healing. The author does not write as a clinician, but as a woman, a widow, and a mother, seeking understanding as a form of survival. The book gently challenges common clichés about grief—such as “moving on” or “getting over it”—and replaces them with a more humane truth: grief is not a problem to be fixed, but a process of adaptation and transformation.

Written for anyone who has lost a loved one—or who wishes to better understand those who grieve—Until We Meet Again offers companionship rather than solutions. It validates pain without dramatizing it, and it affirms that suffering, while devastating, can also become a path toward deeper meaning, continuity, and inner reorganization.

At its core, this book is about love that does not end with death, but changes form—moving from presence to memory, from touch to inner connection. It is a testimony to resilience, to the biology of love, and to the quiet courage required to keep living in a world irrevocably changed.

Vasile Poenaru
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