When you broke up with someone, how long did it take for you to get over it?

In my case, I was over him before I had the guts to break it off! So...not long!

It depends.

Relationships, good or bad, are habituating---it's going to take a while to disentangle.

And I imagine it depends on whether you are the "breaker" or the "breakee."

I remember one good relationship took me about 6 months before I "normalized" and was ready to date again.

I'm a male and that was when I was in my early thirties.

(And, just a comment---read a number of years ago that divorce took 6 months for a woman to recover; 2 years for a man, but that was not meant to be scientifically dispositive.)

I wasn't too keen on having to get over it so I found a compromise. I liked my first girlfriend so much I decided to keep her. That was in 1958 and so far it seems to be working out OK. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

It depends on the relationship. I was with someone for 5 years and I thought we were going to get married. It took me over 6 months to get over that one. Other relationships were shorter and took less time. Some only a week or two.

You tell me when a person breaks up after 12 years.

depends on how long was the relationship

My first relationship was with a girl, and I wasn't entirely sure what I was doing at the time. Because of that, it didn't take too long to get over her after I broke up with her, but I began to feel bad about it later once I realized I was gay. She understood when she found all that out later and we are still friends to this day.

I never been in a relationship.

I'm still grieving a break up after nearly a year because it was that devastating. And it usually depends on the emotional attachment you had towards that person