Eakes, Burke, and Hainsworth’s Middle-Range Theory of Chronic Sorrow is an attempt to explain how people react to ongoing losses, as well as single event losses, using a visual model to represent their theory. They theorists explain that chronic sorrow is a cyclical event that will continue as long as the figure that created the loss in the first place still exists. Moreover, although the person experiencing chronic sorrow experiences periods of non-sorrow and moves on with their lives, the grief is likely to consistently return, and the theorists interpret this ongoing experience as a normal response towards an abnormal
