Love is a very strong and devastating feeling. Especially if you are a very attached person (like me).
When a relationship ends or a loved one walks away or leaves this world, life becomes an immense void.
So I can completely understand those who think it's all over when the person who was our reason for being leaves us.
This exactly.
Reading the comments gives new insights, I read them all.
I'm glad you are gaining new insights OP, and I hope you will have time to find and experience love. I'm one of the ones you get angry with but hope my story may give you a reason to believe in the power of love, or at least that it counts for more insight.
I don't see how the prime of our lives can be in school years, and I hated school so much I isolated myself socially from everyone afterwards for almost 10 years. At 19 I was all alone, but it was better than being with anyone. I found my first real boyfriend at about 29, we lived together for three years, very good person but it didn't last as I was not ready/open to real love. The next one I was about 35, another three years, we didn't live together thankfully as he treated me like crap and sadly, I allowed it.
Three years ago, at 46 I met the most amazing person who became my world. He taught me what love really is and broke down walls I had built around me for whatever reasons since childhood. For the first time I realised that love is a two-way street, not only about giving, but also about receiving and accepting, trusting another person with your whole being. It changes everything, but I understood this just a little too late. He left last year, my world collapsed and I ended up here. I am very grateful as you say, to have experienced this love because if not, would've died alone and unhappy, not even knowing what love was about. But this love can also break a person, because it's like a physical ripping out and tearing apart of what was once joined, and nothing is left inside. I'm still here now, because I'm holding onto a tiny thread of hope that our story is not yet over.
Anyways, we all have different stories. I hope you will find love a lot sooner than it found me, and I wish you all the best
