Why does breaking up hurt so much?

Because you are losing a part of you. Something, well someone, that you've gotten very attached and accustomed to.

Breaking up is a loss in our lives and there is grief involved in any form of loss that we experience and grieving is something that is only ever healed by time. There are so many emotions that can be experienced when we lose someone that we care deeply about and oftentimes they can become overwhelming and it can feel like we are drowning in a sea of pain. Talking about how we feel to people that care about us is so incredibly important, it helps us to release some of the thoughts that we hold to our pain and in every release of these thoughts and feelings we allow ourselves to slowly let it go. It is equally important to allow ourselves to express how we are feeling without bottling up our emotions. When we express and experience our feelings fully we are able to take little steps closer to healing. The more we keep things inside the longer it takes to feel better.

It hurts because the person who you've spent so long with is suddenly gone, but, we still instinctively go to text them, call them tell them about something that happened in our day. There is suddenly a gap that they once filled, and that takes time to fill. It takes time to break the habit of thinking about them and talking to them and until the habit is broken every time we think of them it just opens up the wound and hurts some more..

Because it's a person you spent so much time with. Liking them, loving them, seeing the good in them..planning out for future plans. Some people go into relationships not intending to break up..so when it happens it hurts..but it will stop hurting.

Because it takes a part of you away. A part that goes with the person you break up with. It's such a painful feeling and can totally destroy you if you do not see it for what it really is.

When you love some one you get habitual of them, you integrate them in to everyday. You always think about them, they have special part in your life, they help you do things, they listen to you and help solving problems. When that all gone,you get lost and hurt because you actually lost something. You’ll feel like you can’t accomplish certain tasks because your former significant other always helped you with them. This can make you feel inept and worthless because, on top of the existing sadness from missing someone you love, you can’t handle daily tasks that were never a problem in the past.

It hurts so much because after awhile you get attached to the person you are with.You love them,even if they hate you.That's extra love.

Because we feel almost betrayed by the person that we were with. We engaged so much with and trusted this person. And when we meet someone who we believed to be the one, we came to that realization that maybe they weren't. Our hearts invested a lot into them, and as humans, we're meant to feel hurt when their hearts are not as invested as they once were. But we'll make it through.

You give so much time, energy, and part of your life to someone that it hurts when you break up. But time will heal all, as I believe anyway.

Breaking up hurts because you have been sharing feelings with a person for sometime, and suddenly, one day, your support system is no longer there, that's the thing that causes pain.