Fitton said:
WJP said:
I know it's cold as fook, but I can tell you from experience that trying to re-light the fire is pointless and will only end up in more pain. Cut your losses as quickly as possible and move on.
I split up with a girl after living with her for 4 years and it got pretty messy in the end with us staying friends and me constantly trying to get back with her, turning up at her new flat drunk all the time and obsessed about her meeting someone else. It will totally destroy you if you dwell on it too long.
This is what my pal did. He rang me up one day and said that his missus wanted to break up and could I help him move out ASAP. She'd told him the day before and he went on the net, found a shared house, met all the people who lived there and paid a deposit. I picked him up the next day and filled the car with all his stuff, moved him into a big gaff in Didsbury, full of fit birds and a few lads. He spent the next 2 years having a great laugh, shagging alsorts and last month he married one of the girls who lived upstairs.
He hasn't spoken to his ex since the day I picked him up. And if I was to compare his experience to mine, he was bang on the money.
This is what i'm tryna do just so hard at the minute.
How did you cope with having an empty house and bed after 4 years, thats whats tearing me up!
Well, I couldn't afford the rent in our flat after she moved out, so I had to move back in with Mum!!! Gutted, but after a while I turned stuff around by seeing more of my friends, going out more, but I was still trying desparately trying to get back with her and it was borderline stalking with texts and emails, so one day I decided to delete her from my phone and then imagined she'd moved away to a different country and not Chorlton. She gradually moved to the back of my mind, but not completely.
Then at a new years party I met this girl, only a one night stand, but it broke the spell and I instantly realised I could move on and there was plenty of girls out there, many who are better than my ex. I moved into a shared house in West Didsbury and made so many new pals, I was out all the time and always had something planned most evenings, met a girl who was a friend of a housemate, and we've been together 5 years. Getting married in December.
If I was to put myself in that dark place again, where I was when I was stuck on my own in a flat, pining for her and feeling sorry for myself, I probably wouldn't believe what has occured since, and I can count myself lucky that I ended up with a special woman who is 8 years younger than my ex and
has a better personality, career etc...
Maybe it was meant to be?
You're in a bad spot at the moment, and it might take a while to re-adjust, but the sooner you make this adjustment in your mind, the sooner you will get out of this situation.