My ex and I broke up recently. Perhaps two weeks ago. In my hope to find peace within myself and have a bit of closure, I wrote him an email where I explained many things of how I felt that he had left me out of the blue like a fish with no water. He had told me that I was the love of his life and that he would always fight for us and just a week later due to my reaction over him being an MC at a wedding, he broke things off and completely shut me down.  So he replied to my email and said ” I got your email today and I did a lot of thinking on things I wanted to say… But I realized nothing I say will pacify your pain or my pain. So thank you for forgiving me and thank you for your kind words and reaching out to me. Above all, thank you for introducing me to your family and cool friends. I wish you all the best and as much as you don’t like to keep in touch with exes, I wouldn’t mind staying in touch sometime in the future. Take care of yourself”.

In a way I felt happy that he responded and yet disappointed on what he had said- I saw no hope what so ever in his email to me. I wanted some sort of hope that perhaps it wasn’t really over between us. I replied to his msg and said that yes, we could be friends but I am not sure I can as I still love him and he seems to want to move on. Do you have any helpful insight in for this situation? The truth is that I love him and I thought he did too but when he saw that I overreacted on things, he didn’t like it and he broke it off. We only dated for 4 months but he would always tell me that I was the love of his life. Am I hurting myself more by wanting to still be with someone who seems to want to move on?