I understand the ego thing. I have the tee shirt. Everyone on here has probably felt that blow.
The way I handled it was getting out of my comfort zone and trying new things that use to intimidate me. I re-gained my confidence and in the process had some fun. After being in a relationship for so long, you tend to loose a sense of yourself that you took for granted as a single person. Everyone has a different way of dealing with repairing that damage to the ego. I can tell you that jumping into another relationship is just a band-aid cure. It's time to look a little deeper and find out what really excites your passions. Time to become a friend to yourself if that makes sense. The admiration of another person is nice and gives you a warm fuzzy, but it's not really going to make you feel better about yourself long term. Loneliness isn't so bad when you learn how to entertain yourself. It is a learning process to. We're so use to doing things 'together' with our significant other for so long, we don't know how to do things on our own.
I mean lets be honest, it sucks getting dumped, but you survive and become a little stronger from the experience. Give it some time.
"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare." -Mark Twain
