Have you ever broken up with someone you loved very deeply?

Wow…following..

Yes.

She was married, and it was going to go somewhere physical so I told her I couldn’t talk with her anymore.

Every goddamn day for 2 years or so I regretted it.

Yes. Well the details do not matter.

Almost. :(

Just yes.

Yes.

My boyfriend at the time lied about some things I considered important. It hurt for a year or so. I’m not sure I regretted it, but that might just be because I don’t regret it now.

Yes

About two months ago I basically answered this question here.
“I remember the first guy I ever loved…
Nick.
We were 14. Don’t tell me I was too young. I know what I felt.
He was my best friend. We’d become inseperable. We were magnets. We were in over our heads…
You couldn’t look at Nick without seeing me with him. We were always together.
I rememeber the day I realized we were holding eachother back. We were so young. I wanted him to live his life. I wanted him to have someone better than me.
I wanted him to be Nick. And I wanted to be AshLeigh. Not Nick and AshLeigh. Just Nick. And Just AshLeigh.
But most of all I wanted to look into his eyes and see him, not the glare of my own reflection.
One last hug. The hardest thing to do that day was to pull away and go home…”

No, as I’ve only deeply loved one person. If he were to break off our relationship, I doubt that it would be possible to find another that could come close to replacing him. He’s a keeper.

There have been others that I have loved for who they were, but it wasn’t true love. These relationships weren’t meant to be, and it took one or both of us to figure that out before we made a lifetime committment.

When it comes to family members and friends, there have been a wide variety of relationship styles that have worked or don’t. Life when it comes to relationships is different for everyone. Until we learn to accept this, it will continue to be a burden for those that don’t live out the old-fashioned fairy tale of one man + one woman = happily ever after. The end result can be achieved using many other equasions.

Yes, love doesn’t always equate to happiness.
At some point, I decided that I deserved to be happy.

@Nimis There we go! I remember loving someone intensely, yet not being happy. I was so conflicted over it. The bad thing was the longer I was seperated from her, the more I forgot about those things that drove me crazy.

HAh. Yes I did break up with someone that I was madly in love with. I did so because I felt that I was being selfish for expecting the guy to settle down with me. How long have I regretted this? Well, we broke up 14 years ago, and to this day I still regret letting him go. :/

@gm_pansa1 That’s funny. When my wife and I agreed to marry, she immediately told me to go find someone better than she was. She wanted me to be happy, and felt she couldn’t do that.

Yup… Well, I wouldn’t say deeply, but it could have gone there over time. His kids were absolute slobs, and not mine to re-train, I can’t handle blatently slovenly children. If mine can’t do it, and they are boys too, then yours shouldn’t either… I felt it would become the totality of our problems together if we stayed together so I cut and ran. Not to mention the whole ex-wife wanting to be “Friends” and chat and have coffee… Creeped me the hell out, and the fact that he thought it was a good idea too, bugged me.