Moving on is less about forgetting and more about not checking their story every day.

Forgetting is not something you can order yourself to do, and trying mostly keeps the memory fresh. What you can change is the daily resupply, the small check that hands your attention back to them every morning. Each look restarts the clock on healing without giving you anything useful. Distance is built by what you stop doing, not by what you stop feeling.

Mute rather than confront, since quiet removal is easier to keep. Put something in the ten seconds where the check usually happens, even a boring one. Count the days you did not look, and let that be the number you track.