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Wtk how many times your heart has been broken?

Mmm. That question is too easy to answer too quickly.

Heartbreak seems to be a symptom of the collapse of an energetic system that is pushed into the future. For example, you meet someone, fall in love, and all of a sudden you are imagining the things you will do together. Each of those imaginings puts a pin into the future, and it's like there's a string attached to that pin and you are trying to pull yourself and that other person toward that imagined future event.

Then something happens and all of the strings get cut - that future is no longer viable, and the force that was projecting it out there collapses catastrophically. When this happens, all of the energy you had put out there has to go somewhere, and it recoils on you, since you were its source. Only now the energy isn't welcome: its a reminder of a hurt or a failure, so it's toxic to you. You have to transmute it into something you can assimilate and dissipate, and until that occurs, the pain is a reminder that you have unfinished business.

I know this wasn't the answer you were looking for, but the real meaning of heartbreak isn't quantifiable by a number.