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🕯 Light for your grief. In memory of love...
for those in loss.❤️‍🩹

In honor of my sweetheart. I love you... It completely made his day.

Welcome to IronButterflyHD!

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This group is filled with videos and quotes surrounding the loss of a loved one. Grief is a difficult journey and quotes have helped me along mine. Please feel free to invite family or friends or to share our posts.
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My sweetheart battled a rare blood cancer called Multiple Myeloma for five years, before suddenly passing away. As a young widow I struggled with finding a purpose in my life. He became known as the Iron Lion during his battle. One day when creating a video game character I named mine IronButterflyHD in honor of his game tag. This channel is in honor of his legacy and the light he left behind. One of his favorite video games was Destiny and his favorite character named Shaxx always talked about light. "Good work, Guardian. Your light is strong." If you are new to grief, or an experienced veteran. I hope these videos, messages and uplifting quotes can add a bit of light to your day.

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04/09/2026

The car is unbearable. No matter how I drive, the quiet presses in.

04/09/2026

There are moments when
grief feels like exile.

I have felt the distance between
myself and the rest of the world,
as if no one could truly
understand the heaviness I carry.

Lewis’s words capture the
isolation of mourning,
yet in that isolation,
we also find a kind of truth.

Our hearts have been forever altered,
and though we seek connection,
we must first honor
the space grief demands.

It is lonely, yes, but it is also sacred:
a place where love lingers, memory breathes,
and the depth of our devotion is quietly measured.

Honestly... I've found much comfort
in this community of grievers.
A settlement surrounded
by others who know loss,
sounds like a beautiful place.



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There are moments when grief feels like exile.I have felt the distance between myself and the rest of the world, as if n...
04/09/2026

There are moments when grief feels like exile.

I have felt the distance between myself and the rest of the world, as if no one could truly understand the heaviness I carry.

Lewis’s words capture the isolation of mourning, yet in that isolation, we also find a kind of truth.

Our hearts have been forever altered, and though we seek connection, we must first honor the space grief demands.

It is lonely, yes, but it is also sacred: a place where love lingers, memory breathes, and the depth of our devotion is quietly measured.

03/09/2026
03/09/2026

No one warns you
that grief rewrites your
𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘺.

Not gently.
Not gradually.

Immediately.

Roles vanish.
Habits vanish.
The future you built your
personality around
𝘷𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘴.

I did not just lose a person.
I lost context.

The person who understood
my reactions
before I explained them.

Now every interaction
requires translation.

I am rebuilding a self
without the language I learned it in.

How do you recognize yourself
after the life that defined you ends?

No one warns youthat grief rewrites your 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘺.Not gently.Not gradually.Immediately.Roles vanish.Habits vanish.The fu...
03/09/2026

No one warns you
that grief rewrites your
𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘺.

Not gently.
Not gradually.

Immediately.

Roles vanish.
Habits vanish.
The future you built your
personality around
𝘷𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘴.

I did not just lose a person.
I lost context.

The person who understood
my reactions
before I explained them.

Now every interaction
requires translation.

I am rebuilding a self
without the language I learned it in.

How do you recognize yourself
after the life that defined you ends?

03/09/2026

𝘐'𝘮 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘦 means
I do not have the energy
to translate my grief right now.
It means I am choosing
peace over explanation.

03/09/2026

Some people want grief
to be 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘶𝘭.

A quote.
A story.
A lesson.

They want inspiration.
They want hope.

But grief is not neatly
tied up in a bow.

It is raw.
It is messy.
It is exhausting.

I do not need the pressure
to make pain into beautiful
because I lost someone I love.

I only owe
myself
the space
to exist
𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘭𝘺
𝘢𝘴 𝘐
a𝘮.


02/09/2026

I am tired of explaining that
𝘨𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘧 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘦.
Tired of correcting assumptions.
Tired of answering the same questions
in different polite ways.

02/09/2026

Their death was a 𝘮𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵.
Their absence is
𝗮 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝙢𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨.

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