Thank you! I did manage to get through the meeting, albeit not unscathed. It was a showcase for a ballroom dance program he does, and afterwards I went over to the exit area to try and see if I could find him, and I did end up finding him, it's just that the transcript of our conversation went a lit...

Yes it does, thank you! It's going to be a social engagement. I think that's a good idea, to not have too long of an interaction and give myself some more time and space to get over it. One thing I did have was a keychain I got on vacation as a gift for him before we broke up, but I never had the ch...

Thank you, the article really helped. Especially the part about the breakup not being a rejection of myself as a person, I think that helped reframe my thoughts big-time, acknowledging that something wasn't working instead of focusing on the more negative "oh woe is me I am awful" feelings...

I just got broken up with by my boyfriend of almost two years. It was both of our first relationships. He did it over a phone call, basically saying that he was in a really bad place mentally, and needed to sort out his own mind, and that he didn’t feel he was in a good place to be in a relationship...