To deny yourself time to experience and come to grips with your feelings is to delay your ultimate recovery.
Most people have had past relationships and everyone has to come to grips with his or her partner's dating history.
We're trying to come to grips with our day to day problems like the rest of the masses.
It was as if I hadn't had time to come to grips with that tragedy with the world wind swirling around me.
Pearl's father embodies the bitterness and disorientation that gripped southern slaveholders forced to come to grips with Sherman's powerful onslaught.