I was really, really in love and felt we were soulmates. We’d been friends for years and the relationship was pretty damn amazing until the end. She ended it because she was very close to her fundamentalist Christian mom and couldn’t take lying to her anymore about dating me. She then declared to her friends that she was straight, which I felt totally negated what we’d had together (though now, I see it in a more rational light and I kind of understand it).
It took me several months to get over the depression and shock of feeling like my heart had been ripped out of my chest. After the initial pain and suffering faded, it still took me about two years to get over her.