wtf. NOOOO it's not better to love and lose. Didn't love someone? = No pain. Love someone and they reject you, and they move on with their life while you creep quietly from the sidelines FOREVER unable to forget them and not able to stop seeing the absence of them in every other person you meet from then on in life for the rest of your sad life? = TOTAL SHIT.

Nobody is perfect. You're just putting them on a pedestal because you're imagining something that isn't real. It's always like that when you lose someone. But now you're losing the opportunity to connect with someone new. That's too bad.

I agree both with the OP (sweet confession, can totally relate) and the first responder.

Sure, until you meet someone better, and who would never reject you.

With anyone but myself. And we both know what that's good for. I try not to think of you. To sail through without baggage. Where's the fun in going nowhere by yourself? Please be stronger than your past- the future may still give you a chance...

Forever hey? And who loses in that situation? We all know you’re full of shit. You creep because it’s fun to troll and you love destruction in all forms. Revenge is your thing. It’s not because you’re hurting, but hey, if you act hurt, you ruin someone’s reputation because you get to turn them into an evil heartbreaker. I never believed you though. And I pity those who do but I definitely don’t pity you. But, you do you. It’s YOUR life.

And who are you? Half the time commenters say I'm a man hating woman so I doubt you're much more accurate. Sure, I was upset when I got my heart broken. I blamed this person at first. I told everyone and anyone how terrible they were. But I believed it. Until I didn't...and I realized my part. It's been some time. I'm not ruining anyone's reputation. I'm just doing what most people are doing here. Self-therapy. Maybe, not very successfully.

I do it on here as well. I've learned that in my experience the only thing it has done is given the pain new life. In writing/responding to "them" I found it was more damaging and not really confronting the reality of the situation. I knew I was getting into dangerous territory when I started taking a lot of really unrelated stuff personally. I regress every once in a while on here, it feels good in the moment to maybe hope they care(d), but it's short-lived and just creates more pain. Only you know what works for you. If this helps you to move on, who is anyone else to say otherwise.