One thing I've come across which I think is undoubtly true, is that it takes you twice as long the amount of time you were with someone to get over some them. You may disagree and I'm not saying there aren't exceptions, but you know deep down this statement is true. Sometimes you can get over someone really quick, sometimes it takes almost forever, it just depends on how serious it was.
I suppose it also depends on how it ended. Occasionally I think it's easier to get over someone if it ended badly and you just say you hate each other and be done. That way you know there was no possible future for the two of you and now you can't even talk to each other because you ended it with such anger. Then maybe it easier to gradually let go and just end up friends. Though what really sucks is when this is not mutual, and that is when it gets hard. You want to be friends, besides you have spent a good time together, why should that happiness end just because you don't like each other in that way anymore. Unfortunately the other person has come up with some reason to hate you and doesn't want to talk anymore. The really sad thing is, is this is most times the case. Then there is the reverse affect. You don't want anything to do with them. Maybe nothing was actually that terrible you just have to let go of them because you know it'd be the best. Well the other person doesn't want to stop talking like you, in fact they tell you they want to still be friends. That sucks. With either you wanting to be friends, or the other person wanting to be friends it still is terrible. It leaves you to wonder what could have been. This is why it takes twice as long to get over someone.
The math. If you spent a week with someone, it takes two weeks to get over them. If you spent two months with them, it takes four months to get over them. If you spent a year with them, it takes two years to get over them. I know that sounds like a long time, but thats the reality of it. Imagine now if you spent fourteen years with someone. That's twenty-eight years of getting over one person. This is why one life can affect so many. And you don't even have to be in an official relationship, you could just be talking.
Again, you may disagree, but somewhere deep inside, deep down inside you, you know you are still not over them if it hasn't been twice as long yet.
I suppose it also depends on how it ended. Occasionally I think it's easier to get over someone if it ended badly and you just say you hate each other and be done. That way you know there was no possible future for the two of you and now you can't even talk to each other because you ended it with such anger. Then maybe it easier to gradually let go and just end up friends. Though what really sucks is when this is not mutual, and that is when it gets hard. You want to be friends, besides you have spent a good time together, why should that happiness end just because you don't like each other in that way anymore. Unfortunately the other person has come up with some reason to hate you and doesn't want to talk anymore. The really sad thing is, is this is most times the case. Then there is the reverse affect. You don't want anything to do with them. Maybe nothing was actually that terrible you just have to let go of them because you know it'd be the best. Well the other person doesn't want to stop talking like you, in fact they tell you they want to still be friends. That sucks. With either you wanting to be friends, or the other person wanting to be friends it still is terrible. It leaves you to wonder what could have been. This is why it takes twice as long to get over someone.
The math. If you spent a week with someone, it takes two weeks to get over them. If you spent two months with them, it takes four months to get over them. If you spent a year with them, it takes two years to get over them. I know that sounds like a long time, but thats the reality of it. Imagine now if you spent fourteen years with someone. That's twenty-eight years of getting over one person. This is why one life can affect so many. And you don't even have to be in an official relationship, you could just be talking.
Again, you may disagree, but somewhere deep inside, deep down inside you, you know you are still not over them if it hasn't been twice as long yet.