Subguy...thanks for your response and input. Answering your question with respect to "using A as an escape from the pain of my D". No...the pain from my D is long gone. Before I met A I was just doing my own thing and so was A. She had taken a year off of work, starting July 2012, and her dog Murphy, who she loved dearly, passed away mid January 2013. So when we met and started to date we both filled a void in our respective lives. We just had so much fun together and fell in love. It was not until we broke up that I realized how truly empty my life before A was and how much I missed the fun we had together. Also, I realized that over the past few years I have really neglected my friends which is not what a friend does.
Now I am reversing that trend and reconnecting and getting more involved with other things. Signed up for some meetup groups and yesterday my student loan was approved! That was huge for me as I can now complete my BA in Biochemistry end of 2014. Then, in 2015, I will start working on my MS in Bioimformatics and get back into research.
