Tears are a good alterative, but a poor diet.

Weeping does something useful and it does not do everything. Letting grief out moves something that will not move otherwise, and a person who never cries is usually carrying more than they can say. Sorrow lived in permanently stops being a release and becomes the shape of the days. The line between the two is not about strength, and nobody crosses it on purpose.

In the middle of a loss, let the crying come as often as it comes. Also let one ordinary thing back in each week: a meal with someone, a walk, a small task finished. Not to move on, only to keep something else alive alongside it.