Last night, I spoke with my ex for the first time since our breakup at the beginning of the month. It was a hard conversation, but in a way, I think it helped get me one step closer to healing from this experience. Throughout most of our conversation, I was crying. At times, it was just a simple lip curl and occasional light sniffle, but other times it turned into heavy sobbing, tears streaming down my face and dripping into my lap, the whole works. I think I burnt through half a box of tissues in that one sitting, wiping my eyes and blowing my nose once every couple of minutes. I'm still feeling a bit of the aftershock of it, so I'll likely cry some more over the course of the next few weeks, but right now, I've stopped.