A breakup ends a chapter you liked. It doesn’t cancel the book.

Losing a relationship removes a future you had partly built in your head, which is why it hurts more than the length of it seems to justify. Grieving the plans is reasonable and takes however long it takes. What ended is a section, not the whole thing, though that is nearly impossible to feel in the first month. The rest of your life did not shrink because one part closed.

Give yourself a defined stretch to feel terrible without calling it failure. Keep your friends in the room during it. Then start filling the freed time before the habit of missing settles in.