and then when I finally broke free, I got sick
not too different from my story.. I know, it sucks.
Anyway it's hard to understand if we are trying to increase our self esteem by chasing the people that leave us. Often these people are so weird that they wake up in the morning and they decide to break up. Those are the break ups that are more painful; one is not even ready and he is taken by surprise..
It happened so many times to me that once I asked to a person that did that: "why are we going to close things in such a way. You have not even told me that there was something that was not working between us".
The reply was: "then how should we close the relationship? should we have a party with friends, eat pastries and then I will tell you that I want to break up?".
It's sad, but that's how such people think.
Sometimes we should realize that not all the people think like us.