If you haven't already, please read the book 'From abandonment to healing' I was recommended it several times, and now wish I had read it sooner. It is written by a therapist who was abandoned by her long term partner, and realised how little help there is for people who have beeen abandoned, how devastating it is, and WHY we feel that way, and what we can do to help ourselves recover and grow. It is a fabulous book.
It won't 'take your love away' but it will help to process the hurt,
I have walked in your shoes, right through the unreality of being divorced by the love of your life, and it is devastating. Oddly enough when it is over there is a sense of relief. The worst really has happened, and we can move forward. From now on it only gets better for us, believe me [and usually worse and worse for the poor MLCer, who has got what they thought they wanted] But that isn't actually our problem.
