The love was so real, yet here you are, heartbroken.
These are the love lessons you’ll take with you long after your first heartbreak.
There was your life before, and now youre life after.

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Youre somehow stronger and more fragile at the same time.
You dont magically stop loving them.
It doesnt slip through your fingers like sand, but instead sits inside you like a ghost.

You feel its presence strongly at first, then the love fades only to a whisper in the background.
You see them everywhere, even if just in the way the sun moves.
Youll be reminded of them every day.
Your song will come on and youll feel that heartache anew.
Your true friends will hold your hand through the rough parts.
When youre in the very middle of your heartbreak, your entire world is turned upside down.
The things you found fun arent important anymore.
You just want to spend your time trying to heal.
Theyll show you that they have your back, even when youre a sniffling pile of heartbroken sadness.
The physical toll of heartbreak is realand it hurts almost as much as your emotions.
They call it heartbreak for a reason.
Thephysical symptomsafter the breakup are very real.
Your chest will hurt, youll experience exhaustion and a massive headache from crying yourself to sleep.
You might even feel general pain from head to toe.
Even though its hard, your heart will slowly heal.
In the first moments after your first big heartbreak, youll feel like youll never recover.
But you will, bit by bit.
And before long, youll start to feel yourself again.
Youll know that, no matter what new heartbreak happens in the future, youll survive that, too.