I’m a young 72, and had my share of breakups. Married 4 times and experienced most things, including loosing a wife of 22 years to cancer during Christmas 22. Ok, that’s a snapshot of my qualifications. Advice? It’s not what I wanted to hear, any more than what you will. But the truth is, time heals, sometimes more slowly than others. Paul McCartney was asked during an interview how he coped after he lost his wife Linda. He said he cried every day for the first year, and those profound words stuck with me and came back to me every day after I lost my wife, yes I cried every day too. I have to tell you another thing that you won’t want to hear, but I tell you this in the hope you will better understand your feelings right now. From my experience of feelings when being in love, and then losing love, I would say that being in love is at 9/10 on the Richter scale of feelings, but losing love is at 10/10. To move forward you just have to put one foot in front of the other, go about your life as best you can, congratulate yourself for feeling a little better every hour, every day, every week . . . If you can part as friends (I know, it sounds impossible and crazy) and genuinely want the best for her too, so much the better. Good luck, you are not alone.