cutting off all contact is essential otherwise if u keep calling/txting eachother then ul never let go and its harder to move on. its also good to surround urself with ur best mates and go out with them and try and enjoy urself so ur not always thinking about that person.
there should be no regrets because they are ur ex for a reason... probably means they were never good enough for u in the 1st place!
If you broke up with them then you already know why don't want to be with them ... and if they broke up with you then the bottom line is that they don't wanna be with you and just like you they have the right to pursue their happiness wherever it may be ... so just let it go and stay happy with what you have
Once you go forward, don't look back. Everything happens for a reason, if its not meant to be then accept it, otherwise you will be going round in circles in life instead of striaght ahead
the only thing that worked for me is i got myself so bzzz with my job and transferred all my energy in to my work that i dint have time to think and eventually after 3 yrs things kinda got better, i would be lying if i say i fgot her but yeah occasionally i do miss her lekin phir i think about the good times we spent together , think about her happiness and just get on with my life :D
May Allah bless her with happiness in everything she does, Aameen.
My advice for you would be to cut off all forms of contact, avoid avoid avoid anything remotely related to him. You need to psychologically shock your system. The initial shock period is extremely hard, most people fall at the first hurdle..but if you can go past it then recovery is almost guaranteed.
The other way is to basically keep contact after you break up and talk about things, keep decreasing contact and slowly break away...this unfortunately takes longer and it's way more complicated.