Hi TD I only know you from reading your posts... So my advise to you is Accept what you can't change & change what you can't Accept... decide to get over it & start to live again, sometimes broken hearts don't mend we just learn to live with it! Having the support from good friends around you is the answer, spend time with your mates doing things you like to do, think back to a time you were happiest as a bachelor, enjoy being a bachelor again probably be short lived...
For me it was my motor bike... I didn't have one So took my credit card & went out an bought a big f*ck off bike then spent 3 long years feeling sorry for myself being messed up, got in to drugs sad & depressed & doing silly dangerous Suicidal stuff then I finally decided to get my life back again went to Manchester with a daft mate for a daft **** up weekend... met my now wife.. etc. rest history Etc. My heart break story I got separated from My First born daughter @ 6 months & her mother of course.. My daughter is 17 now & a more or less a total stranger at the age of 5 she attended our wedding as a bridesmaid (then returned to Portsmouth) accompanied by the grand parent's ( my ex's mum & dad ) who she has mostly lived with ever since & 16 years of birthday & Christmas pressies (sent religiously) later, mostly picked out by my wife, & many awkward phone calls, finally lost touch with her when she returned to live with her mum at the age of 13 now back staying with her mum (we don't communicate & have no contact address or phone number) & no longer being influenced Or prompted by grand parents who we are still in touch with & on good terms with.... Heather is old enough & responsible enough to make her own decisions regarding contact by now chooses not to speak & we don't even get as much as a thank you since she moved back in with mum, I don't get a birthday card or a fathers-day card so have now stopped sending or trying to communicate... so I think broken hearts can't be mended you just learn to deal with it... my wife's mate Mad Dave (I don't really know the guy) was married for about 10 years at the time of the Ebola out break, his Wife out of the blue announces she is off to live in south Africa... He was Devastate & almost suicidal.... A fan of bush crafting you guys probably know him better than me... His mates all rallied round dragged him off to the bush moot.. yada yada History... his divorce has reticently been finalized, he's happy again... You may even have been there for Dave I don't Know? anyway its not the end... TD better times are ahead..
& Dave... Tracy & I both wish you lived closer.. I hope you don't mind me retelling your story? Maybe one day we will meet up & Tracy will let me go for a bush trip some where with you & Spikey...