So basically I'm broken up with my first love. We were together for a year and a half, and it ended because she needed time and space to think about her life... She's about to graduate college and has no direction in life. Here's the link to the thread containing more info about the break up, if you're interested :https://www.askmehelpdesk.com/relationships/how-long-should-remain-no-contact-ex-518581.html

Anyway, I was just wondering if there were any other people out there going through what I'm going through. If you can let me know how you're doing or if you have any tips for me. I would be nice to relate to people who are going through what I'm going through right now, and it would be nice to talk to people about how I'm doing and making sure I'm on the right track. Also, I'm sure there are many of you have already gone through what I'm currently going through, so if you have any tips, thoughts, positive thinking, or just anything, I would love to hear what you have to say. Thank you.

I feel for you buddy. First loves are the toughest. There are many stickies at the top of the "relationship" section that should help you.
All I can say is hang in there and if you need to vent just let it fly on this thread. Many people here are happy to respond.

Just remember to stay posative, keep busy, focus on yourself, walk around with your head up, hang out with your buddies they will help you keep everything in perspective. This is just another part of life we all go through.
Good luck!

I broke up with my first love and its been 2 years of no contact for me. She broke my heart and I disappeared from her life, deleted all contact and everything. I've tried everything to get her back but only to find out NC was the only way to get her out of my mind. Now I actually have a goal in life, a career I want to pursue, of all which I was too busy to even consider when I was with the ex.

Anyway there's my story in short. The point is I got over her with NC and stuck to it for 2 years now I don't even feel hurt or care about her anymore and that's how I got over my first love. The answer to how long to stay no contact, is forever if you must, until she comes crawling back and beg you to take over her of which by den you will probably be happy with a new girl and tell her to stay out of your life.

No need to keep starting new posts about the same thing as the other duplicate of this one was deleted. I don't think this will get a lot of feedback frankly, because most people already have a post of what they went through for anyone to read.

@talaniman: yeah, I just really didn't like the title of this one. I don't know why it got cut off. I wanted it to say "Anybody out there going through "no contact".

How about browsing through the forum first, there are already a lot of threads on the subject. Just type No Contact into the search engine at the top of this page and you will find thousands of posts.

Thanks, and I've done that. There was a lot of good stuff. And now I just want to write about what I'm going through.

Update your other thread, and see if this one gets responses. That's what gets confusing about TWO open threads almost about the same thing.