Why do memories hurt so much after someone rejects or leaves you?

[Anonymous]

Moving on from the memories is infinitely difficult.
Moving on and enjoying life is not too easy but doable with time.
But the memories are too much.

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

It hurts because we never wanted memories to be memories, we wanted them to be a continuous here and now.

Yet there was an interruption.

This interruption is a rupture between the past and the present. These memories make us look at the past during the present, they constantly remind us that the good that existed ceased to exist, which has to be sad.

Sad, and painful, until we get to live in a form of here and now that isn't aiming anymore, so fiercely, at the past. Where past and present compartmentalize again, when memories become pages on a book instead of burning food you eat.

No offense intended to people eating spicy

[jahaims]

You aren't emotionally healthy enough to process emotions properly

[Anonymous]

They will fade if you dont focus on them too much. Make some new memories.

[Nikki1989]

Moving on is easy if you are emotionally strong enough.