Short answer
How long is a piece of string?
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Tue 22 Sep 2009, 19:16, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

Long answer
As well as how much you loved them, the answer depends on a lot of external stimuli too. Not only on whether or not you meet a 'replacement', but also on how much is going on in your life. If you have many interesting and stimulating things going on, that should take your mind off them. But on the other hand, if you've got too much crap going on, you may internally blame the crap feelings this is causing on your broken heart.

Based on my own experiences, enough stimulation of the mind has been know to keep my mind occupied, but if I took a break for too long, I'd think of my broken heart again. While you'll always have a place in your heart for that someone, there are many more places in one's heart.

* hugs *
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Tue 22 Sep 2009, 19:17, Reply)