Thank you for sharing that, DG. When I read your poem, I thought 'This feels like grief for a death to me, not just a relationship that's gone wrong.' I understand that grief, my partner died some while back, and there are definitely stages... 3 years; 5 years; I think 5 years for me was the letting go point. I have a short story I wrote that I would like to share with you, which deals with grief, that I wrote at the 5 year point, and which was a cathartic letting go. May I share it with you? it is not something I would post to the forum. PM me & let me know where to send it if you would like to.

All I can say to you is, it never disappears, but it does get easier. Eventually, you remember with a smile more often than with tears. Eventually, you realise that there actually has been a day gone by when you didn't think of him. Just takes time.