dreaming715,

Be more gentle to yourself. You spent a good amount of your lives with your ex partner. It is important to acknowledged that those 5 years are still a part of you. It will always be. Cutting off contacts are good but at the same time .. I do not see how by doing all these things – you will be able to completely forget about this person. Moving on does not mean that you literally “delete” every single about this ex partner.

Moving on means that you’re able to live normally and start a new relationship (a genuine one) after the break up – from what you had describe above, you have already moved on. I understand that even though you are, sometimes, just sometimes, you feel like you are not because you feel a little pang inside your heart when you saw pictures of his family and his new life without you being in it. It is .. normal. Why?

When we invested our feelings, time, money and everything to this one person for 5 years, they will always have that special place in our heart. Reading how you almost g0t married with this person, makes that space even bigger. Accepting that you probably will always feel this way somehow is also moving on because regardless of this, you’re able to get yourself into a new relationship and is content when you saw him in mutual events.

I wish you all the best, you’re doing great. You do not need any kind of reassurance that you have let go or move on by blocking this person on their social media because you already are behind that.

-Mina