Anyone live with a long-term bf/gf and then break up 3 years after, still feel like a part of my soul was ripped away. Unlike any other breakup. Never felt the urge to start dating again after. I'm not sad anymore but I just feel totally hollowed out, like it's impossible for me to be interested in women beyond their bodies. I feel like love is a product of youthful naivete and I've lost the ability to feel it in all of its profundity. There is an overwhelming feeling that I have already experienced the richest emotional parts of my life and everything after is just the same thing but less exciting. Any advice or just fellow experience of people who have gone through this?
>>34536374None that I've lived with, but I have broken up with long-term girlfriends before. It gutted me to the point of self reflection, then self improvement and eventually self acceptance. Feeling hollow is normal, feeling jaded and uninterested in girls right now is normal. That feeling that that was the best it ever was and will be is unfortunately par for the course.But after every "its so over" is an even brighter "we're so back". You only loved and lost if you let what you lost and detract from your life instead of letting the lessons teach you to do more with it. Your love with that girl was exactly that, your love *with that girl*; if you never want to love like that again then congratulations, you never have to. What those lessons can tell you forward into finding more happiness on your own, and then if or when you feel ready you can approach getting into a new relationship with all of the wisdom you gained from your last one.
try mushrooms
>>34536392not OP, but thank you
