The saying that time heals all wounds is more comfort than diagnosis. What time actually does is reduce the frequency of exposure. The wound does not close on its own. The distance grows large enough that you are not being stabbed by it hourly, then daily, then weekly. But under the right conditions, years later, it returns with original force. Healing requires active processing: naming, sitting with, and eventually integrating the loss. Time is the container for that work, not a substitute for it.