The point of GAL, distancing yourself and getting out of their way is to let them live their life but in the process you start to detach.
You have to detach for your own mental sanity. Maybe something will bring them back but they might not also. However, as time progresses and you move forward with your life the memories will hurt a little less and come up less frequently. The first few months were super hard for me but for about a month or so before H really tried to come back I got to the point FINALLY where I could do things and have fun without thinking oh we used to do this with H or I wish I could tell H about this. I was used to my new normal and was getting okay with it.
Keep plugging away. Again, he may not come back or he may want to give it a try but at least you will save your sanity and walk away a better person who is hopefully more self aware of things that you can improve in yourself. Because at the end of the day you can only control you.
