This may seem relatively minor in comparison to a lot of other situations that get posted about or happen around here, but I'm just not really sure where to go right now. My girlfriend and I have been together since around my senior year of high school, and recently broke up around a week ago due to a number of differences between each other over the years as well as distance. I suppose my problem now is trying to deal with not having that other person there to lean on. I'm discovering that I don't know if I'm really missing her or the fact that I have that significant other there to always be able to talk to and just simply share what all I'm doing on a daily basis. Just having the person to send a text and update with what I'm doing in my day and be excited for me is what is difficult. I'm not really a too lonely person, and live on my own and have never had any problems, but that is sort of the gist of it. It's gotten to the point that even if I'm having a friendly conversation with someone and I don't hear back from them for a while/at all for the rest of the day that I start getting down on myself. If I keep myself occupied with work/games/exercise/etc it's not really too bad, but just when I'm alone at night with nothing else really do to it sets in and hurts. I should probably also say that I've never had to go through a breakup as my ex was my first girlfriend and this could easily be standard stuff and I'm just not really experienced. I apologize if this is kinda of rambling, but it's basically stream of consciousness off the top of my head so yeah.
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Broke up with girlfriend of 5 years, lonely and don't know where to go
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This may seem relatively minor in comparison to a lot of other situations that get posted about or happen around here, but I'm just not really sure where to go right now. My girlfriend and I have been together since around my senior year of high school, and recently broke up around a week ago due to a number of differences between each other over the years as well as distance. I suppose my problem now is trying to deal with not having that other person there to lean on. I'm discovering that I don't know if I'm really missing her or the fact that I have that significant other there to always be able to talk to and just simply share what all I'm doing on a daily basis. Just having the person to send a text and update with what I'm doing in my day and be excited for me is what is difficult. I'm not really a too lonely person, and live on my own and have never had any problems, but that is sort of the gist of it. It's gotten to the point that even if I'm having a friendly conversation with someone and I don't hear back from them for a while/at all for the rest of the day that I start getting down on myself. If I keep myself occupied with work/games/exercise/etc it's not really too bad, but just when I'm alone at night with nothing else really do to it sets in and hurts. I should probably also say that I've never had to go through a breakup as my ex was my first girlfriend and this could easily be standard stuff and I'm just not really experienced. I apologize if this is kinda of rambling, but it's basically stream of consciousness off the top of my head so yeah.
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My girlfriend and I broke up due to a number of differences and distance,
assistant