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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thornir Alekeg" data-source="post: 5097395" data-attributes="member: 15651">I'm with Umbran.  You can't be friends right now.  Kindly ask her to respect your need to distance yourself from her for a while.  You'll have a hard time moving on if you stay in close touch with her.I went through something similar at age 21 (we weren't engaged, but had been discussing marriage), and it was made more difficult that I was really good friends with her brother, who was part of my gaming group.  It took me a while to go through the classic stages of grief for our relationship.  When I got to the anger phase, I kept it private so as to not screw up my friendship with her brother.  About a year later I had moved on, met someone amazing, and got married.  My ex-girlfriend had also since married someone (whom she had been seeing while we were going out, but I won't go into that).  A year after that when my friend, her brother, got married, we of course met again at the wedding - hard to avoid the sister of the groom when you are in the wedding party.  It was a little awkward at first, but eventually we found we were able to reestablish some of the comfort we had together.  It helped that her husband proved to be a great person, and that I was no longer pining for her since I had met what really turned out to be the woman of my dreams.Give it time.  It will suck for a while, but you will get through it.  Take the opportunity to spend more time with other friends.  Don't be actively looking for the next woman for a while, but at the same time be open to it in case she happens to be sitting nearby and asks you for directions.</blockquote>

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