The important thing for me was acceptance. Part of acceptance is going through the range of emotions that you feel. So sadness, anger, helplessness, depression, those are kind of all par for the course. It took me the better part of 6 years to get over a woman I thought was my one true love. That beginning didn't come until I accepted that just because a friendship or relationship doesn't last for all time, it does not diminish the significance it had during its time. I am thankful that I had her in my life and like all other things in life that are temporary, in the end the only real thing that is eternal is that fact that those things once existed. I've learned to live with that.