I have to say that it’s been almost a year to the day that my first-love ended things with me. I noticed you’re at 6 months post-breakup for a relationship that lasted 10 months, which is a big deal. Let me tell you, that year or at least 3/4 of a year it took for me to finally be fine with seeing her happy, seeing her with her new bf and not wanting to destroy him, and letting go the pain of her treating me so callously, was what it took for just a two-month relationship. Two months and it took me a year. Everyone’s different but I do think you’re getting better. You stopped contacting her, which means you were at least a lot more self-aware than me. Stopping communication is essential if you just can’t stop thinking about that person and want to try fix something that the other person has given up on completely. My advice is to keep soldiering on and not look back and I say that because it happened to me in the last few weeks. I had this urge to contact her and say hi and catch up on things. But I realise now it would’ve only exhumed all the hurt I’ve tried so hard (and successfully) to bury over the past year. The only thing that makes thinking about the past bearable is when you’re in a new, more secure, more caring, and more loving relationship. Then you can look back on the past and see more good than bad and perhaps you’ll even smile. Don’t force this until you’re ready. Please look after your heart, it’ll beat again, it’ll love again and even stronger and more certain than it has in the past. Love is an amazing thing.