I understand where y'all are coming from, I went through a similar brutal breakup that started last September. The emotional pain was absolutely overwhelming, to the point where I couldn't think and almost couldn't even see (just had memories flashing in my mind). I can tell you 100% that if you give it enough time you will be FINE and probably even be BETTER as a person. Love is a strong drug and you're going through the withdrawals, but they will diminish eventually.
Yea, this is part of the danger when putting all your eggs into one other person's basket.
The "coupledom" propaganda doesn't help, the societal pressure and progressive emphasis on "the other half", devaluation of single people, social media hyping/flaunting and the whole rat race/keeping up with the Joneses, etc.
Being in a romantic relationship has become some sort of right of passage or checkbox for "success", when it is not inherently indicative of being accomplished in the slightest.
I have to admit..I have a very low tolerance for this type of problem.
Part of the reason being that I have seen time and time again how people
obnoxiously invest all their time and energy into one person (primarily for superficial reasons)..blindly praise them to the ends of the earth and force everyone else to bear witness..while willingly losing touch with those same people and any other source of care/love (platonic, familial) that was always available to them.
Then, as soon as a problem arises between themselves and their partner..they expect the people they dropped and pushed aside like garbage to come running to their aid.
And it doesn't end there..then they start the back and forth..between hating their partner's guts and wanting you to agree with them/support them, then as soon as you do they come at you with a "Wait actually, they are the best thing ever and I am doomed without them, Oh god look at how great they are! Look at them!"
Then if they do get back together or close the rift temporarily, those on the sidelines are expected to go right back to being brain dead cheerleaders (which should have never been an expectation in the first place).
And the cycle continues.
To one degree or another.
There is no balance when it comes to this image of "the couple" that society (or your partner themselves) will demand that you live and die by.
Instead of it merely being a different form of companionship that shares priority with individuality/independence as well as other types of relationships (which are just as important), it has transformed into a gaudy status symbol complete with ceremonies and dictated applause..the be-all and end-all.
It
also doesn't help that it has overlap with actual be-all, end-all issues (because these are what usually can cause a relationship to fail or they are the things that bar certain people from relationships to begin with).
Too much of the self is sacrificed because the expectations and proposed guidelines for these types of relationships are unrealistic, unrelenting, shallow, full of avarice or rapacity regarding possession of another human, conditional where they should not be & unconditional where they should be (conditional) and so on.
Really poor analogy because I'm tried…but if there is balance, breaking things off should feel more like the loss of a finger, rather than all four of one's limbs.
If not at first, then eventually.
Too many people end up abandoning any other form of worth they have, any other form of connection..because they sacrificed, compromised, and wholly settled into fiction that is akin to an obsessive romance novel.
What should be an actual partnership involving two individuals has become some enmeshed abomination where you can hardly tell one party from the other..and they insist that's part of the charm!
To that I say: No thank you.
Sounds like a nightmare to me, even if it "went well".
I agree that if you can find your way out of that entanglement and make it to the other side..you may not like it, but you may indeed end up "better as a person", as an individual.