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Wow, I really respect all of you MoFo's who've been brave (I don't know if that's the right word, but it's close) enough to post about all these difficult situations here. I'm very glad I'm a part (even a minisculely tiny part) of a community like this where people feel safe and comfortable enough to share these kinds of stories. I do wish I had some kind of advice to give any of you, but I really don't. And I also kind of wish I had some sort of horrible problem going on in my own life to post here, but, yeah, I don't. Like blibblobblib, all my problems seem pretty trivial compared to the heaviness other folks have been laying down here.
I did break up with the only person I've ever loved about six months ago and I'm probably never going to see her again because she now lives hundreds upon hundreds of miles away from me. But since I'm the one who more or less ended the relationship and thoroughly broke her heart, I feel way too guilty to feel all that bad about it myself. Breaking up with her was the biggest regret of my life, but right now I'm trying to stop feeling so dang regretful about things. Actually, that is a pretty good piece of advice for any of you MoFo's who want to hear it: Don't have any regrets. If it's in the past, it's in the past and there's nothing you can do about it now. Just move on. I don't know if that applies to anybody's situation here, but I think it's good advice, in general.
And like Mark said, almost everybody's got their fair share of devastating breakups or heart-wrenching relationships or whatever. I'm not smart enough to really know if love is worth all the pain that inevitably goes along with it, but I'd say it probably is.