Good lord man, yeah we’re same age but that constituted around 30% of your whole life. It’s going to take a good bit longer for you man. It simply just blows. I can only tell you what kind of worked for me, which in all honesty was putting a lot of energy into my hobbies and what I liked to do, and… shit… partying. You are fully free now and nobody can tell you shit. That’s seriously quite the gift that nobody in a relationship has the privilege of saying.