You gradually get over the pain. it doesn’t go away, not for a long time, but it becomes easier to live with. One morning you wake up and hes not the first thing on your mind. And then a few months down the line, you realize you’ve made it through half a day without thinking of him. Sometimes it takes months, sometimes years, but eventually you reach a point when you only think about him occasionally. You manage to do this because you don’t see them, you don’t hear about them, you try not to think about them. And then one day you bump into them walking down the street, or someone unexpected mentions their name…and the memories come flooding back, just like that.