u/DECEPTICON_Pavan

🎥:Ti sadhya ky karte

Me(19M) and My girlfriend(19F) of 3 years broke up with me around a month ago and also kind of cheated on me. She was my first real love, first kiss, first everything basically. I genuinely loved her and thought the breakup would destroy me emotionally. But the weird thing is… I barely reacted. I didn’t cry, didn’t have emotional breakdowns, and even during our final call I felt strangely calm. I’m not happy about what happened, but I also don’t feel the extreme sadness or anger that most people describe after a breakup like this. Sometimes I actually wish I could cry just to release whatever I’m feeling, but nothing happens. I’ve even tried listening to sad music and looking through old memories/photos to see if emotions would hit, but I still mostly feel numb or detached. Some of my friends think this means something is mentally wrong with me and are telling me to see a therapist because “not grieving” after a relationship like this isn’t normal. For context, over the past year I’ve also consumed a lot of content about stoicism, philosophy, and emotional control, so I don’t know if that affected the way I process emotions. Is this emotional numbness/shock normal after a breakup or should I actually be concerned?