# I need cheering up, badly.  Dumped and broken hearted.

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 30, 2010, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-cheering-up-badly-dumped-and-broken-hearted/565772 "2010-12-30T01:24:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Brynda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Brynda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brynda)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2010, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-cheering-up-badly-dumped-and-broken-hearted/565772/21 "2010-12-31T14:49:59Z")

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Just wanted to add my sympathy. This sucks, but you will survive. Honest. I really admire you for having gotten into volunteer work. I bet that will be a great thing, both in helping you keep busy and helping you feel good again. Keep it up.

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**Author:** ![Ibanez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a4c791/32.png) [@Ibanez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibanez)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2011, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-cheering-up-badly-dumped-and-broken-hearted/565772/22 "2011-01-01T07:32:02Z")

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Sorry your going throught that Justin. Sounds like a relationship of mine way back my first true love and after 3 years it was over she wanted out.

It hurt like a son of a bitch. For two months I was pretty bummed. But eventually it got better.

As it turned out after she got to sow her wild oats she got in touch with me again about 5 years after. She wanted to meet for coffee I agreed more out of curiosity and because the wounds had healed by that point. She wanted to give it another shot.

But because of the history and because of the lack of what I should of felt . I knew it wasn’t going to work out.

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**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2011, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-cheering-up-badly-dumped-and-broken-hearted/565772/23 "2011-01-01T08:08:07Z")

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Ouch. An email breakup of all things? That’s harsh. You hang in there. My only advice is that, when you start feeling bad, remind yourself that the pain will eventually pass.

You have my sympathy as well.

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**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2011, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-cheering-up-badly-dumped-and-broken-hearted/565772/24 "2011-01-01T13:17:27Z")

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Sounds like exactly what happened to me a little over a year ago.

When someone tells you that they’ll always love you, etc etc, take that shit with a grain of salt, because everyone says that to a half dozen people in their lives. That won’t help you now but it might help you see things differently the next time a “soul mate” comes along.

Take care. It’ll get better, man.

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