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deademostrawberry · 26-30, F
1 month average

As long as it takes you to let go and not live in the past.
Magenta · F
If I was deeply connected and attached, (which I was) a long time. Many months and perhaps even years. There's no way it can be a precise amount of time. It took time to grow into them and it takes time to grow out of them.

It's like a grieving process.
@Magenta: I don't think for the deep hurts we ever get completely over it, but learn to manage and live with it. I know the more I don't focus on it, the less I hurt of course. It comes less and less, but I don't believe in dwelling on it. We cannot move forward that way. Then when we find a new someone, it takes the pain away from the other. Each heal in their own time.
Magenta · F
LadyGrace...I don't think we do either, if we were truly bonded, it remains a part of us. It does lesson with time, thankfully. I hope. It's not happening much yet.

A new someone is not for me. I have NO desire and people are not replaceable, I don't replace. :-)
@Magenta: I hate to hear that, as you deserve to be happy with a good companion. However, I'm just about at the same place you are. I'm not so sure there's anyone out there, but trying one last time. It would be sad to pine over someone the rest of our lives that obviously was not right for us. I refuse to do that. I don't believe anyone is worth that. Especially when they did not value us. I'm glad we valued ourselves enough to get out. It would have never worked.
Depends on how long we were together, how invested i was, how much i liked them, etc
i bounce back pretty quick in most cases(bad as that sounds), but tend to take the time to work on and repair myself so that whatever i get into next isn't sabotaged because of the baggage.
Truth @DancingStarGoddess:
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Depends how long I was under them🤔
Sweet517 · 51-55, F
It can take years especially if I was deeply in love and/ or got no closure. It can be much quicker if I see the person through a different lens after the breakup
revenant · F
years for me or one second
On both sides, yes - and the emotions between @revenant:
revenant · F
one can fall out of love when deeply disrespeted...everyone has their own story
Truth @revenant:
hunkalove · 61-69, M
Twenty-five years, and counting....
@hunkalove: I'm sorry 🙁 - they must've been incredible
Magenta · F
hunkalove... Very special. 💕
SailorMarz · F
It depends on lots of things
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I just leap... and presto!
GlassDog · 46-50, M
It completely depends on how much I felt and the conditions of the break-up.
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Often as long as I was with them.
KaskadingKoquette · 36-40, F
Sex and the city says half of the time the relationship was. If you dated a year; six months. lol.

Other than that, I think it's all relative.
@ShadowedWhispers:does 5 months for a 6 month situation sounds crazy?
Day to day is not, some fires burn hot and quick @squirtle:
Sometimes you connect deeply quickly, there is no magic formula for heartbreak
Goralski · 56-60, M
Days perhaps even 4
Groofydorkgerdo · 56-60, M
*shrugs shoulders* Ida know, I'ma bout ta to find out my wife is packing as I type to leave me.
UndeadPrivateer · 31-35, M
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My record isn't great when it comes to that. I've only ever cared a lot about one person and it took me a few years to recover.
@CallMeDex: do you ever catch yourself from letting yourself fall to deep in the worries of going through that pain again?
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@squirtle: Yes. It still plays on my mind even though I've mostly put the darkness behind me. I don't know if those wounds ever fully heal or if time just helps it fade a bit.
@CallMeDex: completely understandable, I always catch myself doing the same - like they say what doesn't kill you makes you wiser

Thanks for your honesty
*it helped me feel normal

 
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