STM - You may as well ask what the point of everything is with that attitude. Nothing anyone ever does lasts forever, and most of it won't mean anything even a thousand years from now. So why bother with anything, eh?
We do things because we are alive and because we can. Just because something won't mean anything later, doesn't make it less important in the present.
Relationships are important to some of us for our emotional well-being - For me it's almost like it's something etched into my human psyche as a by-product of how we reproduce. They're perfectly natural human behaviour, and some people desire to have them more than others. Bit annoying, but there you go. That's how we work, I guess.
Yeah they hurt like hell emotionally when they end, but during them I've never felt happier and the emotional quality of my life was a lot better - And that's the type of happiness I seek from a relationship. The only way to get that happiness and to find out how a relationship will develop is to be in one, with the chance that it may last a very long time if you're lucky.
But of course you're also lucky if you feel you don't need one.
Mudokon Master - Don't leave any lose ends if you can help it. Sorting out those lose ends may take some time, but it helps a lot. I was able to get over my first relationship relatively easily because my first ex is a decent, honourable person and we talked about stuff and covered everything. My second ex had lots of issues and wasn't open with me at all toward the end, and even 5 months on I still feel bitter about what happened.
Makes a lot of difference.
Be careful who you pick in the first place, I guess.
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