Things were rough for a while but I thought that maybe a little bit of space and time would be a good thing, and then we could talk again and fix it and make it better.
I’m shocked at the permanence of the disappearance.
If there’s anything resembling an upside I suppose it’s because it ended exactly as I expected.
I know how you feel. I was cut off unceremoniously from my SO of 5 years after a rough period where he was hospitalized for depression. Basically, he just said “I can’t do this anymore” one day and that was the last I ever heard from him.
Abandonment is hard to take, and I’ve always thought that the hardest part is that in a lot of ways, it’s like bereavement…but worse, because you’ve been left deliberately and not by some freak chance. And the thing that stings the most is the people whose SO’s pass away get sympathy and understanding, but people who simply get left get a pat on the head and are expected to just get over it.