>>8095792Newsflash to everyone or anyone that goes through such emotional and yet rational thoughts or states of mind:
A relationship means a constant exchange of trust through actions towards or beside eachother. Therefore suffering because the other party not only refused to partake in this exchange of trust but demolished it entirely is not worth suffering over, your life has not lost meaning and you have not lost anything of value, what happened is that you actually won back the freedom and peace of mind to choose better next time, your life isn't over, it just started.
The partner is a symbol of whatever love or partnership means to you, the moment a person steps out of what that symbol means to you it ceases to be. Yes, symbols can change meanings and they can even evolve or degrade in time, the point is to be open about fair critique and discard unfair exchanges of trust.
I've been cheated on too and I've been depressed for a very long time, time that I've lost crying about myself, woe is us. In this time I could've made a move on the love of my life but I did not because I didn't think I'd deserve it or out of fear of the calamity not happening again. It's all bullshit.
Time waits for no one, cry your eyes out, process the meaning this person used to be to you and is no longer and move on, crippling yourself over a shattered symbol is a decision, something in your control.
All the best.