I'm not depressed. Maybe a little pragmatic. I know there is no cookie cutter for everyone's relationships. But I just wanted to introduce a reality check. And I would like to say that in every situation where I've heard people getting back together (successfully) post D, both people, but especially the LBS, have moved on with their life. And I also wanted to point out that it is entirely possible to have a good relationship with a new person post-D and that you realize in retrospect that the person you pined away for really wasn't the cat's meow. Maybe I'm just playing bubble burster today.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. Theodore Roosevelt