I have often been asked this question and to be honest there is no definitive general answer to this. I justt want to share this thought that I read somewhere:

"“One of the hardest things to accept is that you still love the other person but you can't be together. They may even love you, but you're just not right for one another. We are conditioned to believe that love should be able to overcome any obstacle, but that is often not the case.
You don't have to stop loving the other person, and, in fact, this is usually impossible right away. As much as we may wish there was, there is no magic switch that allows us to turn off our feelings. You may never completely stop loving the other person, but eventually those feelings can reach a place of acceptance where you still care about them but you're comfortable knowing that you can never be together."

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