Dear Diana,
I’m 29 and after a five-year relationship my guy suddenly decided to walk away. He just stopped communicating with me one day. He has not yet told me what went wrong and why he had to take such a drastic step. I have asked him, but he refuses to talk to me. As I spent every single day of the past five years with him, I’ve constantly been getting feelings of loneliness, sadness and stress. It is as if I am mourning and I have lost something. I am engulfed by grief. Ever since he dumped me, I’ve not been the same. I don’t know if I will ever get over him. Though I am working, I can’t get him out of my head. I feel a vacuum in my life. I cry often and feel hurt. Sometimes I feel angry at myself for trusting him and letting him control me. I really don’t know how to overcome my heartbreak. He appears to be happy in his new phase of life.
— Khurram

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