I just found out an hour ago that my ex boyfriend, the big love american guy, died last night. He killed himself. That’s all I know, I don’t have any other details. I just got a message from a friend, on FB, who knows us both from StumbleUpon - the website where we all met a long time ago.
I don’t know what I am feeling. I have no idea how I am supposed to feel about all of this.
There was no ill will or shitty feelings between us. Everything was in order when we broke up. We talked about it, we made peace with it. He messaged me a few months ago, and I wrote about it here. I guess I was just slipping into nostalgia a bit, regarding him, but that was it. We talked like civilized people, made jokes, flirted a little bit. Everything seemed just fine. I never imagined that he would actually go ahead and kill himself. On top of that, he is the first person in my adult life, that has died. Other than my grandpa, when I was 3, I never had someone in my life that I care about, die. It’s so weird.
When I got the FB message I started shaking, and that was it. Blank. Nothing else. No feelings of sadness, of despair, of loss, nothing. I just felt nothing. I didn’t cry, I just can’t cry. Not even now. I am probably still in shock, even though I talked about what happened to various people. I processed it by talking to a few people who know us both. By talking to my boyfriend, to my real life friends. And still, no tears. I talked to my boyfriend, who lost his father 6 years ago, and he said that it’s fine, I shouldn’t push myself to feel anything, to cry. But it just feels so weird to me to...not feel.
It’s just so weird to me to feel this way. It’s pretty horrible.
I know that he will be missed. I will probably miss him when I will think of him. I will for sure. He was a good person, he had many friends, and he was loved. So loved. I loved him desperately when we were together. I could have done anything he asked me to, I loved him that hard.
That’s why this feels so weird.
Is this emptiness what one is supposed to feel when someone they loved died? Because to me it’s just so weird. And horrible.